AFWIS Joins Operation World in Prayer for the Republic of Bolivia - Latin America

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Mar 12: Bolivia

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Bolivia

Republic of Bolivia

Latin America

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Geography

Area: 1,099,000 sq km
Landlocked Andean state. High plateau in southwest, tropical lowlands in north and east. One of only two landlocked republics in the Americas.
Population: 10,030,832    Annual Growth: 1.78%
Capital: La Paz (administrative); Sucre (legal)
Urbanites: 66.5%
HDI Rank: 113 of 182 (UN Human Development Reports 2009)

Peoples

Peoples: 43 (2% unreached) All peoples
Unreached Peoples Prayer Card

Official language: Spanish; Aymara; Quechua    Languages: 41 All languages

Religion

Largest Religion: Christian

Religion		Pop %	Ann Gr
Christians	9,125,048	90.97	1.6
Evangelicals	1,628,371	16.2	4.6

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Challenges for Prayer

Lowland tribes have been largely evangelized through great sacrifice and with considerable success. Praise the Lord for the work of NTM, SIM, WGM, UWM, South American Mission and others. Their ministries have been strongly attacked by anti-Christian anthropologists and commercial exploiters of these lands as “genocidal”, but these claims prove spurious in the face of real exploiters. Pray for maturity in indigenous leaders, integration of these believers into Bolivian life, sound conversion of the second generation of Christians and development of a healthy indigenous Christianity as part of their culture.
Foreign missions. Early missionaries struggled long against hostility, persecution and harsh living conditions before the harvest ripened. The contribution of AEM (now SIM) was unique in pioneering most of the major gospel advances and ministries in the country. Foreign ministry must now focus on developing leaders (especially among the Quechua and Aymara), reaching and discipling young people and developing holistic ministries. Major missions include SIM, NTM, YWAM, WGM, SAM(USA), AM. Korean missionaries were instrumental in founding two of the three Christian universities.
     For an additional 9 Challenges for Prayer see Operation World book, CD-ROM, or DVD-ROM.

More Information

The Operation World book, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM provide far more information and fuel for prayer for the people of Bolivia.