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People group profile · PG017168

The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau of Brazil

The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau of Brazil, numbering about 125 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are native to Brazil, Rondonia.

They are an indigenous people in the Guarani people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau.

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Fast facts

Country
Brazil
Population
125
Affinity group
American Peoples
People cluster
Guarani
Primary language
Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau (urz)
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
Rondônia: upper Cautário, Jaciparaná, and Jamari rivers

Where they live

Gospel status

The Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau 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 Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

  • 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

Ethnoreligion

90% adherents

Primary language

Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau · Tupian family

100% speak Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

Gospel resources in Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

  • Bible not available
  • 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 Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau

  1. Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
  2. Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
  3. Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
  4. 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.

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