People group profile · PG017477
The Secoya of Ecuador
The Secoya of Ecuador, numbering about 800 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Amazonian people calling themselves Siekopai, whose territory once spanned seven million acres between the Putumayo and Napo rivers before rubber-era slavery, evangelization, and the 1941 Ecuador-Peru war fragmented their communities.
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 Secoya.
Fast facts
- Country
- Ecuador
- Population
- 800
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Secoya (sey)
- Primary religion
- Animism
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10%
- GSEC
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Marginally Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Sucumbíos province: Cuyabeno canton; Aguarico, Cuyabeno, and Eno rivers, near Colombian border
Where they live
Gospel status
The Secoya are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 5% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Secoya
- 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
80% adherents
Primary language
Secoya · Tucanoan family
20% speak Secoya
Gospel resources in Secoya
- Bible available, published 2012
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- Maija'quë Huajë Ca Nëose'e · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Secoya
- 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.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
Secoya in other countries
The same people (ROP3 108784) is reported in 1 other country.
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