People group profile · PG017016
The Mehinaku of Brazil
The Mehinaku of Brazil, numbering about 250 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are an Arawakan people of the Xingu headwaters in Mato Grosso specializing in salt production, who help maintain peace among Xingu tribes through trade, intermarriage, and ceremony, once threatened by Txicao raids until pacification in the 1960s.
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 Mehináku.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 250
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Mehináku (mmh)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Unengaged and Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Pioneer Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Mato Grosso: Xingú Park
Where they live
Gospel status
The Mehinaku 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 Mehinaku
- 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
60% adherents
Primary language
Mehináku · Arawakan family
100% speak Mehináku
Gospel resources in Mehináku
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Mehinaku
- 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.
- 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.
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