People group profile · PG017251
The Maca of Paraguay
The Maca of Paraguay, numbering about 1,200 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a once-nomadic Chaco people who adopted a horse-based lifestyle after eighteenth-century contact along the Rio Bermejo, later guiding Paraguayan soldiers during the 1930s Chaco War and receiving land as a presidential reward for their wartime service.
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 Maca.
Fast facts
- Country
- Paraguay
- Population
- 1,200
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Maca (mca)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 20% or Greater but Less than 30%
- GSEC
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Significantly Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Alto Paraná department: Micro Centro; Central department: Comunidad Maka (Corumba Kue); Cordillera department; Presidente Hayes department: Villa Hayes and Kenkukek; San Pedro department; Paraguai river, northeast of Asuncion
Where they live
Gospel status
The Maca 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 Maca
- 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
Animism · Ethnoreligion
50% adherents
Primary language
Maca · Mataguayan family
100% speak Maca
Gospel resources in Maca
- Bible available, published 2014
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 2013 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc. · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Maca
- 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.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
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