People group profile · PG016901
The Jarawara of Brazil
The Jarawara of Brazil, numbering about 225 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Arawan-speaking Amazonian people of the middle Purus River, part of a language cluster shared with the closely related Jamamadi and Banawa that they understand with ease, commercializing rubber latex, Brazil nuts, and copaiba oil.
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 Jamamadí.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 225
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Amazon
- Primary language
- Jamamadí (jaa)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 40% or Greater but Less than 50%
- GSEC ?
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Significantly Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Amazonas: Jaruara; Lábrea municipality, 7 villages; Banawá river area; others scattered
Where they live
Gospel status
The Jarawara 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 Jarawara
- 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
Animism · Ethnoreligion
70% adherents
Primary language
Jamamadí · Arawan family
100% speak Jamamadí
Gospel resources in Jamamadí
- Bible available, published 2020
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Jaruara)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Jarawara
- 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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