The Navaho of United States

The Navaho of United States, numbering approximately 336,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as an indigenous community of the United States They are an Indigenous people, with Navajo as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the North American Indigenous people cluster of the North American Peoples. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Navajo is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: North American Peoples
Country: United States
People Cluster: North American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Navajo (nav)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 336,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG043558
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Navajo
Language Family: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit

83%
%
Navajo Speakers

Media Resources in Navajo:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film

1 film

Bible Resources in Navajo:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1985 American Bible Society✓

1 entry

Or check out the Navajo bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Navaho are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Navaho:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Navaho of United States

Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!
readPsalm 46:10

Pray that those who do not yet worship Jesus will be still and know that He is God, that He will be exalted among them and in all the earth.

More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.
readRomans 5:11

Pray for the gospel to advance and for more people to be brought into God's family through the reconciliation Jesus offers them.

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: ‘To the unknown god.’ What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.
readActs 17:23

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will have a deep desire to know God more fully and to make Him known in creative ways to others who are still searching for truth.

Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”
readPsalm 96:10

Pray for God to put in the hearts of believers to go to the lost and testify about the Lord who reigns.

Navajo Across Countries (ROP3 - 107125) reported in the following countries:

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