People group profile · PG016996
The Makuna of Brazil
The Makuna of Brazil, numbering about 175 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Tucanoan-speaking Amazonian people of the Apaporis and Pira-Parana confluence straddling Brazil and Colombia, sustaining themselves through hunting, gathering, and slash-and-burn farming within a wide network of intermarriage and ritual exchange.
They are an indigenous people in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism, and they primarily speak Macuna.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 175
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Macuna (myy)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- 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
Where they live
Gospel status
The Makuna 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 Makuna
- 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
Animism · Ethnoreligion
98% adherents
Primary language
Macuna · Tucanoan family
100% speak Macuna
Gospel resources in Macuna
- Bible available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- Sociedad Biblica Internacional 1989 · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Makuna
- 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.
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
Makuna in other countries
The same people is also reported in 1 other country.
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