The Tsimane of Bolivia

The Tsimane of Bolivia, numbering approximately 9,300 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as an Amazonian forager-horticulturalist people of Bolivia's Beni department who resisted Jesuit mission settlement despite seventeenth-century contact, later drawn into wage labor during the rubber and quinine booms of the late nineteenth century They are an Indigenous people, with Tsimane as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Animism. They primarily speak Tsimané.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Bolivia
People Cluster: South American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Tsimané (cas)
Primary Religion(s): Animism
Population: 9,300
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017430
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Animism
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

88%
%
Animism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Tsimané
Language Family:

70%
%
Tsimané Speakers

Media Resources in Tsimané:

Films:
TitleLink
JESUSView Film
JESUSView Film

2 films

Bible Resources in Tsimané:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
New Tribes Mission✓✓✓

1 entry

Or check out the Tsimané bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Tsimane 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 Tsimane:
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

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readLuke 1:46-47

Pray that those who are lost will recognize their need for a Savior and joyfully embrace the mercy that God offers.

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
readIsaiah 40:8

Pray that everyone has access to God's Word and that those who hear the good news will turn from their sins and put their faith in Jesus the Messiah.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
readJohn 10:27

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will hear God's voice and will have the great assurance that no one can snatch them from the Father’s hand.

I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessing.
read1 Corinthians 9:23

Ask God to give believers a deep desire to share the gospel with those who don't know the truth about God's redemption plan, and to provide them with opportunities to do so cross-culturally.

Tsimane Across Countries (ROP3 - 110214) reported in the following countries:

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