People group profile · PG016481
The Panare of Venezuela
The Panare of Venezuela, numbering about 3,200 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Cariban people of Venezuela's Guayana Highlands who call themselves E'nepa, confined to the upper Cuchivero River until the late 1800s before expanding into lands left vacant by extinct neighboring groups.
They are an indigenous people in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak E'ñapa Woromaipu.
Fast facts
- Country
- Venezuela
- Population
- 3,200
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- E'ñapa Woromaipu (pbh)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Bolívar: savannah and highland groups 240 km south of Caicara de Orinoco, west of Cuchivero river. 20 or more settlements
Where they live
Gospel status
The Panare are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Panare
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
- Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people
Primary religion
Primary language
E'ñapa Woromaipu · Cariban family
100% speak E'ñapa Woromaipu
Gospel resources in E'ñapa Woromaipu
- Bible available, published 2003
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Panare)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Panare
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
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