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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Inuit of Canada

The Inuit of Canada, numbering approximately 39,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous Inuit people who live primarily in the eastern regions of Inuit Nunangat, the Inuit homeland in Canada. They are an Indigenous people, in the Arctic Peoples people cluster of the North American Peoples affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Christianity - Protestantism. They primarily speak Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Canada
People Cluster: Arctic Peoples
Primary Language(s): Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian (ike)
Primary Religion(s): Christianity - Protestantism
Population: 39,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG047358
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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: Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian
Language Family: Eskimo-Aleut

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Inuktitut, Eastern Canadian Speakers

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Next steps for the Inuit

The Inuit 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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Send cross-cultural teams to discover and research this people group
Begin gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group

Next steps for the Inuit

The Inuit 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.

Continue prayer and fasting for this group
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 Inuit

The Inuit 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.

Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
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 Inuit of Canada

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or?rulers?or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.
readColossians 1:16

Pray for those who are lost among them, that they will come to know the One who created all things and holds all things together.

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth.
readPsalm 67:4

Pray that God will use ways from in-person witnesses to digital gospel resources to bring the joy of His salvation to everyone so that they can be glad in Him and sing for joy.

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.

Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!
readPsalm 149:3

Pray that God will send His people across cultures to share the gospel so that those who don't yet know the truth about Him might praise His name and share the hope of Christ with others.

Inuit, Eastern Canadian (ROP3 - 104041) reported in the following countries:

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