People group profile · PG046891
The Siripu of Colombia
The Siripu of Colombia, numbering about 70 people, are Unengaged and Unreached. They are an Indigenous people of Colombia's Orinoquía region associated with the Caño Mochuelo reserve whose heritage is linked to the wider Cuiba and Guahiboan cultural world and whose population has been greatly reduced by historical displacement.
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 Cuiba.
Fast facts
- Country
- Colombia
- Population
- 70
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Cuiba (cui)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- Unengaged and Unreached
- Evangelical
- No Known Evangelicals
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Frontier Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Arauca department: Cravo Norte municipality; Casanare department: Betania, El Merey, Esmeralda, Mochuelo, San José de Ariporo, and Santa María on Capanaparo river and tributaries; Vichada department: Meta river south bank
Where they live
Gospel status
The Siripu are Unengaged and Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, and there has been no reported church planting activity in the past two years. 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 Siripu
- Pray that God would send workers to this people group
- Begin sowing the gospel and seek out people of peace
- Plant the first churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice
Primary religion
100% adherents
Primary language
Cuiba · Guahiboan family
100% speak Cuiba
Gospel resources in Cuiba
- Bible available, published 2022
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 1987 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc · audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Siripu
- 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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