People group profile · PG016826
The Yanomamö of Brazil
The Yanomamö of Brazil, numbering about 2,200 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Amazonian people of the Orinoco and northern Amazon basins spanning Venezuela and Brazil, living in kinship-based villages called shabonos where women grow most of the food, first sustained outside contact in the 1940s brought deadly epidemics.
They are an indigenous people in the Amazon people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Yanomamö.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 2,200
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Amazon
- Primary language
- Yanomamö (guu)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- 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
Where they live
Gospel status
The Yanomamö 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 Yanomamö
- 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
Animism · Ethnoreligion
80% adherents
Primary language
Yanomamö · Yanomamic family
100% speak Yanomamö
Gospel resources in Yanomamö
- Bible available
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Yanomamo)
Bibles
- 2008 Margaret Jank · audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Yanomamö
- 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.
- 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.
Yanomam, Guaharibo in other countries
The same people (ROP3 110975) is reported in 1 other country.
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