Rio Arauca Guajibo, Playero in Venezuela
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| People Name: | Rio Arauca Guajibo, Playero |
| Country: | Venezuela |
| 10/40 Window: | No |
| Population: | 200 |
| World Population: | 500 |
| Primary Language: | Playero |
| Primary Religion: | Christianity |
| Christian Adherents: | 50.00 % |
| Evangelicals: | 0.05 % |
| Scripture: | Unspecified |
| Ministry Resources: | No |
| Jesus Film: | No |
| Audio Recordings: | No |
| People Cluster: | South American Indigenous |
| Affinity Bloc: | Latin-Caribbean Americans |
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Introduction / History
The Playero are a subgroup of the much larger Guajibo people. This tribe suffered much from Colombian and Venezuelan colonists between the late 1700s and the 1970s. The colonists would hunt them down and kill them as if they were animals. In 1870, there was an especially horrible massacre.
What Are Their Lives Like?
Today, the Playero live in poverty and have little political or economic power in Colombia and Venezuela.
What Are Their Beliefs?
About half of the Playero are Christians. Many of them have blended Roman Catholicism with traditional religion and spiritism.
What Are Their Needs?
The Playero need to center their lives around the person and teachings of Jesus Christ.
The Playero need to depend on God for purposeful skills and adequate education.
Prayer Points
Pray for a movement that will bless the Playero people with a relationship with Jesus Christ, who offers life to the full.
Pray for the Lord to thrust out Christ followers who will go to the Playero people and offer the skills and educational resources they need.
Pray for the Lord to help them thrive economically and spiritually.
Pray for the Lord to raise up Playero disciples who will make more disciples.