The Margos Chaulan Quechua of Peru

The Margos Chaulan Quechua of Peru, numbering approximately 143,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an Indigenous Quechua people of Peru's Huánuco highlands whose identity reflects ancient Andean heritage, adaptation to mountain communities, and membership in the broader Quechua ethnolinguistic tradition. They mostly adhere to Ethnoreligion and Margos-Yarowilca-Lauricocha Quechua is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Peru
People Cluster: Quechua
Primary Language(s): Margos-Yarowilca-Lauricocha Quechua (qvm)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 143,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG017552
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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%
Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Margos-Yarowilca-Lauricocha Quechua
Language Family: Quechuan

73%
%
Quechua, Margos-Yarowilca-Lauricocha Speakers

Media Resources in Margos-Yarowilca-Lauricocha Quechua:

Films:
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JESUSView Film

1 film

Bible Resources in Margos-Yarowilca-Lauricocha Quechua:

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1 entry

Or check out the Margos-Yarowilca-Lauricocha Quechua bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Margos Chaulan 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.

Next steps for the Margos Chaulan Quechua:
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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But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved.
readEphesians 2:4-5

Pray that those who have not yet received new life will be made alive together with Christ, saved by grace and raised up with Him to newness of life.

All the earth worships you and sings praises to you; they sing praises to your name.
readPsalm 66:4

Pray that the good news of Jesus will advance here and that many will bow down and sing praises to His name.

For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them.
read1 Corinthians 9:19

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will have hearts that want to serve the lost around them so that many might come to faith in Jesus.

For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; he is to be feared above all gods.
readPsalm 96:4

Pray that God will raise up believers to declare His glory among the lost, so that they may know that He is great and greatly to be praised, that He is exalted above all gods.

Quechua, Margos-Yarowilca-Lauricocha Across Countries (ROP3 - 106327) reported in the following countries:

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