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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Ambo-Pasco Quechua of Peru

The Ambo-Pasco Quechua of Peru, numbering approximately 127,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are one of many Quechua-speaking Amerindian groups of Peru, Huánuco Department, Ambo province: Huacar, San Francisco de Mosca, and San Rafael districts. They are an Indigenous people, in the Quechua people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion. They primarily speak Quechua, Ambo-Pasco.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Peru
People Cluster: Quechua
Primary Language(s): Quechua, Ambo-Pasco (qva)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 127,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017495
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Quechua, Ambo-Pasco
Language Family: Quechuan

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Next steps for the Ambo-Pasco Quechua

The Ambo-Pasco 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 Ambo-Pasco Quechua

The Ambo-Pasco 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 Ambo-Pasco Quechua

The Ambo-Pasco 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 Ambo-Pasco Quechua of Peru

Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
readLuke 12:7

Pray that those who don't yet know how to trust in Jesus will not be consumed by worry and anxiety, but will trust in the Father's care and provision for their daily needs and for their eternal salvation

...And that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
readLuke 24:47

Pray that the message of repentance and forgiveness through Jesus will reach everyone.

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.

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.

Quechua, Ambo-Pasco (ROP3 - 100275) reported in the following countries:

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