The Southern Conchucos Ancash Quechua of Peru

The Southern Conchucos Ancash Quechua of Peru, numbering approximately 349,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Peru and can also be known as Southern Conchucos. They are an Indigenous people, in the Quechua people cluster of the Latin-Caribbean Americans affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Christianity - Folk Catholicism. They primarily speak Quechua, Southern Conchucos.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Peru
People Cluster: Quechua
Primary Language(s): Quechua, Southern Conchucos (qxo)
Primary Religion(s): Christianity - Folk Catholicism
Population: 349,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017579

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Christianity - Folk Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Christianity - Folk Catho… Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Quechua, Southern Conchucos
Language Family: Quechuan

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Quechua, Southern Conchucos Speakers

Media Resources in Quechua, Southern Conchucos:

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Next steps for the Southern Conchucos Ancash Quechua

The Southern Conchucos Ancash Quechua 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 Southern Conchucos Ancash Quechua

The Southern Conchucos Ancash Quechua 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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Next steps for the Southern Conchucos Ancash Quechua

The Southern Conchucos Ancash Quechua 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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Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Southern Conchucos Ancash Quechua of Peru

That they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us.
readActs 17:27

Pray that those who don't yet know Christ will search diligently for God and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
read1 John 1:5

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In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
readMatthew 5:16

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The next day again John was standing with two of his disciples, and he looked at Jesus as he walked by and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God!”
readJohn 1:35-36

Pray for those God sends to cross cultures to share the gospel, that they might faithfully share the good news of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.

Quechua, Southern Conchucos Ancash reported in the following countries (ROP3):

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