People group profile · PG016837
The Ikolen of Brazil
The Ikolen of Brazil, numbering about 600 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Tupi-Mondé-speaking Indigenous people of the Ji-Paraná (Machado) River region of eastern Rondônia.
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 Gavião Do Jiparaná.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 600
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Amazon
- Primary language
- Gavião Do Jiparaná (gvo)
- 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
- Also known as
- Ikolen, Gaviao of Rondonia
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Rondônia state, Terra Indigena Igarape Lourdes (Gavião dialect). Mato Grosso state, municipality of Rondolándia (Zoró dialect)
Where they live
Gospel status
The Ikolen 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 Ikolen
- 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
70% adherents
Primary language
Gavião Do Jiparaná · Tupian family
100% speak Gavião Do Jiparaná
Gospel resources in Gavião Do Jiparaná
- Bible available, published 1991
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Gaviao Do Jiparana)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Ikolen
- 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.
- 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.
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