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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The St. Lawrence Island Yupik of United States

The St. Lawrence Island Yupik of United States, numbering approximately 1,600 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of the United States . They are an Indigenous people, in the Inuit people cluster of the North American Peoples affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Christianity - Protestantism. They primarily speak Yupik, Saint Lawrence Island.

St. Lawrence Island Yupik in United States photo
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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: United States
People Cluster: Inuit
Primary Language(s): Yupik, Saint Lawrence Island (ess)
Primary Religion(s): Christianity - Protestantism
Population: 1,600
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): Engaged yet Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): Less than 2% Evangelical, No Active CP Activity
People Group ID: PG043641

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Christianity - Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Christianity - Protestant… Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Yupik, Saint Lawrence Island
Language Family: Eskimo-Aleut

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Yupik, Saint Lawrence Island Speakers

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Next steps for the St. Lawrence Island Yupik

The St. Lawrence Island Yupik are Unengaged and Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

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Next steps for the St. Lawrence Island Yupik

The St. Lawrence Island Yupik are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

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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

Next steps for the St. Lawrence Island Yupik

The St. Lawrence Island Yupik 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.

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Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the St. Lawrence Island Yupik of United States

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
read1 Timothy 6:9

Pray for those, rich and poor, who have put their trust in worldly things, and ask that they will be honest with themselves, acknowledge their need for God and turn to Him.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 
read2 Timothy 4:3-4

Pray that the lost will be open to the truth of the gospel and turn from false teachings and myths to the sound doctrine of Christ in faith.

For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.
readHebrews 10:26

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will live with reverence for God and not deliberately keep sinning after they receive the knowledge of the truth.

For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
read2 Corinthians 1:5

When any who might believe suffer for the sake of the gospel, ask God to deepen their understanding of His grace so that they may share it freely with those who have not received it.

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