People group profile · PG016946
The Animpokoimo of Brazil
The Animpokoimo of Brazil, numbering about 45 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are one of roughly a dozen small Cariban groups, including the Xerew, Katwena, Mawayana, and Tutumo, that migrated north along Brazil's Trombetas basin ahead of an advancing frontier before missionaries gathered them in the 1940s into the Waiwai community.
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 Waiwai.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 45
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Waiwai (waw)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Unengaged and Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Pará and Roraima states
Where they live
Gospel status
The Animpokoimo are Unengaged and Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, and there has been no reported church planting activity in the past two years. 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 Animpokoimo
- Pray that God would send workers to this people group
- Begin sowing the gospel and seek out people of peace
- Plant the first churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice
Primary religion
50% adherents
Primary language
Waiwai · Cariban family
100% speak Waiwai
Gospel resources in Waiwai
- Bible available, published 2002
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 2001 UFM International · audio
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Animpokoimo
- 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.
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