People group profile · PG017472
The Otavalo Highland Quichua of Ecuador
The Otavalo Highland Quichua of Ecuador, numbering about 726,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Ecuador.
They are an indigenous people in the Quechua people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Catholicism, and they primarily speak Imbabura Highland Quichua.
Fast facts
- Country
- Ecuador
- Population
- 726,000
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Quechua
- Primary language
- Imbabura Highland Quichua (qvi)
- Primary religion
- Folk Catholicism
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Imbabura province; Pichincha province: extreme northern part around Cayambe, northern highlands
Where they live
Gospel status
The Otavalo Highland Quichua are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Otavalo Highland Quichua
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
- Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people
Primary religion
Folk Catholicism · Christianity
94% adherents
Primary language
Imbabura Highland Quichua · Quechuan family
100% speak Imbabura Highland Quichua
Gospel resources in Imbabura Highland Quichua
- Bible available, published 1994
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Quichua, Imbabura Highland)
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Otavalo Highland Quichua
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
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