People group profile · PG033526
The Apurucayali Ashéninka of Peru
The Apurucayali Ashéninka of Peru, numbering about 4,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an Ashéninka people of Peru's Amazon basin whose identity is rooted in the Apurucayali river region and forms part of the wider Arawakan-speaking Ashéninka cultural tradition.
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 Ajyíninka Apurucayali.
Fast facts
- Country
- Peru
- Population
- 4,000
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Amazon
- Primary language
- Ajyíninka Apurucayali (cpc)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Huanuco, Pasco, and Ucayali regions: Apurucayali tributary, Pachitea river
Where they live
Gospel status
The Apurucayali Ashéninka 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 Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Apurucayali Ashéninka
- 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
60% adherents
Primary language
Ajyíninka Apurucayali · Arawakan family
73% speak Ajyíninka Apurucayali
Gospel resources in Ajyíninka Apurucayali
- Bible available, published 2000
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Apurucayali Ashéninka
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- 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.
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