People group profile · PG016566
The Bare of Brazil
The Bare of Brazil, numbering about 7,400 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are one of the subdivisions of the Barasana people—a Tucanoan-speaking indigenous group located in the northwest Amazon, especially in Colombia.
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 Nhengatu.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 7,400
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Nhengatu (yrl)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Pioneer Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- concentrated along the Xié River and upper Rio Negro, spanning northwest Brazil (Amazonas) and parts of southern Venezuela
Where they live
Gospel status
The Bare 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 No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Bare
- 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
80% adherents
Primary language
Nhengatu · Tupian family
100% speak Nhengatu
Gospel resources in Nhengatu
- Bible available, published 1973
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Bare
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
Bare in other countries
The same people (ROP3 101053) is reported in 1 other country.
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