People group profile · PG017177
The Waiwai of Brazil
The Waiwai of Brazil, numbering about 2,900 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Cariban people formed from six smaller founding groups, including the Shereo, Parukoto, and Taruma, who converged near a 1949 evangelical mission in Guyana before many later returned to their present communities in northern Brazil during the 1970s.
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 Waiwai.
Fast facts
- Country
- Brazil
- Population
- 2,900
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Waiwai (waw)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 10% or Greater but Less than 15%
- GSEC ?
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Pará and Roraima states
Where they live
Gospel status
The Waiwai are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Waiwai
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Primary language
Waiwai · Cariban family
100% speak Waiwai
Gospel resources in Waiwai
- Bible available, published 2002
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 2001 UFM International · audio
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Waiwai
- 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.
Waiwai in other countries
The same people is also reported in 1 other country.
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