People group profile · PG017573
The Asheninca Pajonal of Peru
The Asheninca Pajonal of Peru, numbering about 12,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Amazonian people of Peru's Gran Pajonal plateau whose ancestors destroyed Franciscan missions there in the 1740s under Juan Santos Atahualpa, later gaining land security in the 1980s when most of the plateau was deeded to 36 Asheninka communities.
They are an indigenous people in the Amazon people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Ashéninka Pajonal.
Fast facts
- Country
- Peru
- Population
- 12,000
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Amazon
- Primary language
- Ashéninka Pajonal (cjo)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5%
- GSEC
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Marginally Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Junin, Pasco, and Ucayali regions: central Gran Pajonal area
Where they live
Gospel status
The Asheninca Pajonal are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 2% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Asheninca Pajonal
- 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
96% adherents
Primary language
Ashéninka Pajonal · Arawakan family
100% speak Ashéninka Pajonal
Gospel resources in Ashéninka Pajonal
- Bible available, published 2008
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 2008, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Asheninca Pajonal
- 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.
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