People group profile · PG017152
The Turiwara of Brazil
The Turiwara of Brazil, numbering about 60 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Tupi-descended people of the upper Acara River in Para state, documented in the region since at least the eighteenth century through alliances and family ties with the neighboring Tembe and local Quilombola communities.
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 Tembé.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 60
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Tembé (tqb)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- Engaged yet 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: with the Tembé [tqb] language group on Acará-miri river
Where they live
Gospel status
The Turiwara are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. 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 Turiwara
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
- Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people
Primary religion
100% adherents
Primary language
Tembé · Tupian family
75% speak Tembé
Gospel resources in Tembé
- Bible available, published 2008
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Turiwara
- 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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