People group profile · PG017560
The Nipode of Peru
The Nipode of Peru, numbering about 125 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a Witoto-speaking people of the Peru-Colombia Amazon border whose population, once numbering around 50,000, collapsed to as few as 7,000 under the early 20th-century Putumayo rubber boom atrocities overseen by Julio Cesar Arana's Peruvian Amazon Company.
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 Nüpode Huitoto.
Fast facts
- Country
- Peru
- Population
- 125
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Nüpode Huitoto (hux)
- 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
Where they live
Gospel status
The Nipode 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 Nipode
- 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
55% adherents
Primary language
Nüpode Huitoto · Huitotoan family
50% speak Nüpode Huitoto
Gospel resources in Nüpode Huitoto
- Bible available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Nipode
- 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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