People group profile · PG017413
The Movima of Bolivia
The Movima of Bolivia, numbering about 14,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a people of Bolivia's Llanos de Moxos in Beni department who speak a language isolate unrelated to any other tongue, settled by Jesuit missionaries at Santa Ana, where tensions boiled over in 1709 with the killing of Father Baltazar de Espinosa.
They are an indigenous people in the South American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Movima.
Fast facts
- Country
- Bolivia
- Population
- 14,500
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- South American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Movima (mzp)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5%
- GSEC ?
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Marginally Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
Where they live
Gospel status
The Movima are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 2% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Movima
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Primary language
10% speak Movima
Gospel resources in Movima
- Bible available, published 1967
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Movima
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
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