Alianza Cristiana y Misionera de Bolivia
President: Rev. José Luis Jaldín
Av. Busch 1808, La Paz, Bolivia
+591 71520333
STATISTICS (2022)
Membership
822
Churches
5
Ordained Ministers
6
Missionaries
1
The Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Bolivia became a place for a group of people interested in studying the Bible in the Irpavi area in the city of La Paz, Bolivia in the 1980s. On that occasion, two missionaries who were working in Bolivia on behalf of an evangelical Christian mission, seeing that the group began to grow, requested the organization of a first church to the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Peru, that at the opportunity of starting an Alliance work in Bolivia, with a good disposition of heart, sent Peruvian missionaries who began the organization of a congregation, which over the years was becoming a well established church in the southern area of the city of La Paz.
A few years later, the Churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Paraguay formed the Missionary Agency for the Southern Cone (AMACOS), with one of the main purposes of organizing a National Alliance Church in Bolivia, which formed an alliance through a joint effort, to send a missionary to fulfill that purpose: Pr. Pablo Darraidoü of Chile; who since his arrival in Bolivia started working on this goal.
Also during that time, in a step of faith of the first church of the Alliance of the South zone of La Paz, it was decided to open a second church in the city of La Paz, entrusting this responsibility to Pr. Pablo Mogollón – of Peruvian nationality, who had been already in Bolivia for many years with his family, and who, moreover, had recently been ordained as Pastor of the newborn Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Bolivia. It is in this way that the work of the Alliance begins in the area of Miraflores, in the city of La Paz.
In 1993, after an arduous work of the Missionary Pablo Darraidoü and other brothers of the recent work of the Alliance, the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Bolivia was constituted in the city of La Paz, in a great assembly that marked this first stage of the process of constitution of a National Church of the Alliance on Bolivian soil, also obtaining the corresponding legal status, by the State of Bolivia.
Regarding the start of the work of the Alliance in Cochabamba, it began due to the God’s work in the hearts of a family of brothers who belonged in their home country to the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and who had immigrated to Bolivia from Arequipa, Peru for personal reasons. They felt the Lord calling them to start a Bible study group, which was formed mainly by young university students, who met at their home. By God’s work in this group that had been formed recently, AMACOS decided to send Pastor Moisés Díaz from Chile, in order to formally start the work of the Alliance in the city of Cochabamba, during this last decade of the 20th century, becoming some years later the third organized church of the Alliance in Bolivia.
During the first decade of the 21st century, the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Cochabamba, in another step of faith, decided to start a new project in the thriving city of Quillacollo, Cochabamba, which continues to advance to the present.
In 2009, it reached an agreement with the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Peru, so that, in a strategic alliance with the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Bolivia, a new work could begin in the city of Santa Cruz, Bolivia, which has also advanced in the testimony of Christ since then, in this important and dynamic city of Bolivia.
The Christian and Missionary Alliance Church of Bolivia considers that it has been constituted by the action of God, to bear witness in Bolivia and to the end of the earth, that Jesus Christ Saves, Sanctifies, Heals, and Returns…; and is committed to being an instrument of God for this purpose to be fulfilled, through the planting of new churches in Bolivia and towards the whole world… (“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” Acts 1.8)