The Cotopaxi Highland Quichua of Ecuador

The Cotopaxi Highland Quichua of Ecuador, numbering approximately 108,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a people of Ecuador 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 Quichua, Chimborazo Highland.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Ecuador
People Cluster: Quechua
Primary Language(s): Quichua, Chimborazo Highland (qug)
Primary Religion(s): Ethnoreligion
Population: 108,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG043132

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Ethnoreligion
Religious Affiliation: Ethnoreligion

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Ethnoreligion Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Quichua, Chimborazo Highland
Language Family: Quechuan

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Quichua, Chimborazo Highland Speakers

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Next steps for the Cotopaxi Highland Quichua

The Cotopaxi Highland Quichua 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 Cotopaxi Highland Quichua

The Cotopaxi Highland Quichua 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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Next steps for the Cotopaxi Highland Quichua

The Cotopaxi Highland Quichua 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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Pray specifically for the Cotopaxi Highland Quichua of Ecuador

"And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
readJohn 8:32

Pray for those who live enslaved to sin to hear and receive the truth of the gospel and be set free.

"Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool."
readIsaiah 1:18

Pray that God will make a way for the gospel to reach many through means they can understand and access, that they will receive the good news with joy, and that they will experience complete forgiveness and cleansing from their sin that Jesus offers through His sacrifice.

Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the LORD has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.
readIsaiah 49:13

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and suffer for their faith, they will sing for joy and be glad in their hearts because the Lord has compassion on them.

Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
readMatthew 28:19-20

Ask God to bring people among this group to faith in Jesus who will be obedient to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them and teaching them to obey all that Christ has commanded.

Quichua, Cotopaxi Highland (ROP3 - 116228) reported in the following countries:

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