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The Toba of Argentina

The Toba of Argentina, numbering approximately 77,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an indigenous community of South America, native to Argentina, Paraguay, and Bolivia. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Toba is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Argentina
People Cluster: South American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Toba (tob)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 77,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017371
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Toba
Language Family: Guaicuruan

58%
%
Toba Speakers

Media Resources in Toba:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Toba:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
2012 Sociedad Bíblica de Argentina✓✓

1 entry

Provided by Faith Comes by Hearing

Or check out the Toba bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Toba 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 Toba:
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 Toba of Argentina

In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
read1 John 4:10

Pray for those without the hope of Christ to understand the depth of God's love and the sacrifice He made for them.

And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed. And the word of the Lord was spreading throughout the whole region.
readActs 13:48-49

Pray that the gospel will spread throughout this whole region and that many will believe and embrace the gift of eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ.

I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.
readMatthew 25:36

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will honor Jesus and find joy as they take care of those in need.

Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!
readPsalm 34:3

Pray that God will raise up believers who will go to those in this people group who do not yet follow Jesus, and that they will invite many to magnify the Lord with them so that His fame will spread to the ends of the earth.

Toba Across Countries (ROP3 - 110108) reported in the following countries:

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3 people groups

PhotoPeople Group IDName ▲CountryPopulationStrategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
TobaPG017283TobaParaguay1,500No Longer UnreachedTobaEthnoreligion
TobaPG017371TobaArgentina77,500No Longer UnreachedTobaEthnoreligion
TobaPG017427TobaBolivia225No Longer UnreachedTobaEthnoreligion

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