People group profile · PG016849
The Guajajara of Brazil
The Guajajara of Brazil, numbering about 24,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Tenetehara Tupi-Guarani people of Maranhão who inhabit the eastern margin of the Amazon and share common ancestry with the Tembé, from whom they diverged through nineteenth-century migration and territorial expansion.
They are an indigenous people in the Guarani people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Guajajára.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 24,000
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Guarani
- Primary language
- Guajajára (gub)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 15% or Greater but Less than 20%
- GSEC
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Maranhão: Pindaré, Grajaú, Mearim, and Zutiua rivers. 81 villages
Where they live
Gospel status
The Guajajara are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Guajajara
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Primary language
Guajajára · Atlantic-Congo family
100% speak Guajajára
Gospel resources in Guajajára
- Bible available, published 2007
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Guajajara)
Bibles
- Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. 2007 · audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Guajajara
- 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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