The North Bolivian Quechua of Bolivia

The North Bolivian Quechua of Bolivia, numbering approximately 274,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Bolivia and can also be known as North La Paz Quechua. They are an Indigenous people, in the Quechua people cluster of the Latin-Caribbean Americans affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion. They primarily speak Quechua, North Bolivian.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Bolivia
People Cluster: Quechua
Primary Language(s): Quechua, North Bolivian (qul)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 274,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017415

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Quechua, North Bolivian
Language Family: Quechuan

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Quechua, North Bolivian Speakers

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Next steps for the North Bolivian Quechua

The North Bolivian 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 North Bolivian Quechua

The North Bolivian 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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Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people

Next steps for the North Bolivian Quechua

The North Bolivian 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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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 North Bolivian Quechua of Bolivia

And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.
readActs 4:12

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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
readJohn 3:16

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If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
readColossians 3:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some.
read1 Corinthians 9:22

Ask God to raise up believers from around the world to go and share the hope of Jesus with the lost so that they might trust in Him and have the hope of eternal life.

Quechua, North Bolivian reported in the following countries (ROP3):

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