People group profile · PG017495
The Ambo-Pasco Quechua of Peru
The Ambo-Pasco Quechua of Peru, numbering about 128,000 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. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Ambo-Pasco Quechua.
Fast facts
- Country
- Peru
- Population
- 128,000
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Quechua
- Primary language
- Ambo-Pasco Quechua (qva)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10%
- GSEC
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- South America, Americas
- Location
- Huanuco region: Ambo province, Ambo, San Francisco de Mosca, and San Rafael districts; Pasco region: Pasco province, Ticlacayán district
Where they live
Gospel status
The Ambo-Pasco Quechua are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 5% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Ambo-Pasco Quechua
- 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
Ambo-Pasco Quechua · Quechuan family
100% speak Ambo-Pasco Quechua
Gospel resources in Ambo-Pasco Quechua
- Bible available, published 2017
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings not available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Quechua, Ambo-Pasco)
Bibles
- 2017 Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc · video, audio
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Ambo-Pasco Quechua
- 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.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
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