People group profile · PG047038
The Yauna of Colombia
The Yauna of Colombia, numbering about 200 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous Tucanoan-related people of the Apaporis and Mirití-Paraná river region of the Colombian Amazon who have long maintained close ties with Tanimuka, Macuna, and Miraña communities and are now largely integrated with them.
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 Macuna.
Fast facts
- Country
- Colombia
- Population
- 200
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Macuna (myy)
- 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
- Vaupés department: Apaporis tributaries, Mirití-Paraná, and lower Pira-Parana
Where they live
Gospel status
The Yauna 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 No
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Yauna
- 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
Primary language
Macuna · Tucanoan family
100% speak Macuna
Gospel resources in Macuna
- Bible available, published 2014
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- Sociedad Biblica Internacional 1989 · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Yauna
- 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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