People group profile · PG017113
The Suya of Brazil
The Suya of Brazil, numbering about 400 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are a Je people who call themselves Kisedje, having migrated to the Xingu River headwaters around 1840 and absorbed women and children from neighboring groups, historically known for a distinctive male lip-plate tradition.
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 Suyá.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 400
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Suyá (suy)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Unengaged and Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC ?
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority ?
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Mato Grosso: Xingú Park, headwaters of Rio Culuene; Pará: Terra Indígena Capoto or Jarina reservation, Kayapó villages (2002 ISA)
Where they live
Gospel status
The Suya 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 Suya
- 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
Primary language
Suyá · Nuclear-Macro-Je family
100% speak Suyá
Gospel resources in Suyá
- Bible available, published 2007
- 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 Suya
- 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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