Inter-ethnic Partnership in the Gospel Leading to Growth and Fruit in Bolivia

Inter-ethnic partnerships within Christian and Missionary Alliance national churches continue to grow the C&MA in Bolivia, raising up new leaders to reach new cities, starting, within Bolivia and expanding outward.

In the 1980s missionaries from the Peruvian C&MA were sent into Bolivia to assist missionaries there with the growing needs in the field. A church established in the southern area of Irpavi, La Paz was the beginning of the Christian and Missionary Alliance church in Bolivia.

A few years later, the Alliance churches in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Paraguay partnered to form the Missionary Agency for the Southern Cone (AMACOS) with the purpose of forming a national Alliance church in Bolivia. They sent Pastor Pablo Darraidoü of Chile to fulfill this purpose. At the same time, the church in La Paz decided to plant a second church in Miraflores led by Pastor Pablo Mogollón, a Peruvian. In 1993, the C&MA of Bolivia gathered in La Paz, marking the first stage of becoming a national Alliance church, obtaining legal recognition by the state as a result of the efforts of Pablo Darraidoü and other workers in the Alliance.

Following this, another church was started in Cochabamba. A group of C&MA brothers from Peru had immigrated to Bolivia and started a Bible study group primarily for university students. Consequently, AMACOS sent Pastor Moisés Díaz from Chile to formally start the work of the Alliance in the city of Cochabamba. It became the third organized church of the Alliance in Bolivia. More work is now being done to reach the thriving city of Quillacollo, Cochabamba.

In January 2007, the C&MA in Ecuador sent the missionary Luis Felipe González Arias and his family to Bolivia to plant a church in Calacoto, La Paz.

In 2009, the Alliance in Peru and Bolivia partnered to begin work in the city of Santa Cruz. In addition, the Alliance Biblical Seminary of Peru (SEBAP) has an extension program in Bolivia. They had 10 students graduate in their four-year pastoral studies program in June 2018.

The current National President of the Alliance in Bolivia is Rev. Ramiro Machicado Terrazas.

The believers continue to bear witness to Christ, the one who saves, sanctifies, heals and returns. They seek to plant churches, starting from Bolivia to reach the ends of the earth.

Prayer Points:

• Pray for the new work in the city of Oruro.
• Pray for the re-organization of the transcultural Missions Department.
• Pray for the raising up and sending of transcultural missionaries.
• Pray for the approval of new regulations and statutes.
• Pray for the training of new leaders and pastors.