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Universidad Simón I. Patiño sits in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The church closest to campus is Capilla San Nicolás de Tolentino, about 0.6 miles away, one of 4 within walking distance. You will find Catholic congregations in the surrounding area, and you are welcome whether or not that tradition is your own.

Arriving, and the ache of a new place

A smaller campus in Cochabamba can feel like everyone already found their people before you arrived, and you are still looking. That ache is not weakness and it is not rare. Nearly everyone around you feels some version of it, and one of the oldest, quietest answers to it is a room full of people who will learn your name, pray for your week, and save you a seat.

There is a church about a 10-minute walk from campus. You could be there this Sunday, and you would not have to walk in alone. If it helps, start with when you feel lonely at college, how to find Christian friends, or what a first Sunday is actually like.

And you do not have to wait to be found. The other believers are already here, scattered and unseen. The Campus Gathering shows you how to find them, or begin one yourself, because two or three who gather in his name are already the church on this campus, and the most beautiful doorway to Christ a searching student ever walks through.

You are more than your transcript

You have a few years here to decide what you will do. Underneath that, quieter and impossible to put on a schedule, is the question of who you are becoming while you do it.

It is not a new question. Students have carried it through Cochabamba since 2006. This is the oldest ache there is, and a degree, however good, was never built to fill it. Long before you had a transcript, a major, or a single line of achievement to your name, you were already known and already loved. That is the heart of what Christians mean by the Living Bread: a belonging and a life that do not run out when the grades come in, when the offer falls through, or when a semester in Cochabamba quietly breaks you. Jesus offered himself to hungry people as exactly that, the bread that satisfies the hunger underneath the hunger, the one no achievement has ever reached.

If that stirs something in you, you can start with who Jesus actually is, or sit for a while with what God wants you to do with your life. There is no hurry, and no test at the end of it.

Where you are, and who is already near

Universidad Simón I. Patiño has stood in Cochabamba, Bolivia since 2006. Generation after generation of students has arrived here in the years since, hauling boxes into a strange room, learning a new set of streets, and carrying the same quiet questions underneath the timetable and the reading list. You are only the newest of a very long line.

And you are not without a local family here. The congregations nearest campus are real, named places: Capilla San Nicolás de Tolentino about 0.6 miles away; Iglesia de la Recoleta about 1.1 miles away; and Cochabamba Bolivia Temple about 1.2 miles away. These are not abstractions on a map. They are ordinary rooms full of people who would learn your name, pray for your week, and save you a seat, a short way from where you sleep. 4 of them sit close enough to walk to.

Wherever you have come from, Cochabamba, Bolivia can become more than the city your degree happens to be printed in. It can become the place you were found. You can see every nearby church listed in full just below, explore more campuses across Bolivia, or step back to the whole University Kingdom Network. And when you want a congregation near your exact address, the church finder can map it.

Churches Near Universidad Simón I. Patiño

These are real congregations closest to campus, drawn from OpenStreetMap, with straight-line distances. Service times and student ministries vary, so check each church directly. When you are ready, the church finder maps them for you.

• Capilla San Nicolás de Tolentinowalkable
  0.6 miles away
• Iglesia de la Recoletawalkable
  1.1 miles away
• Cochabamba Bolivia Templewalkable

  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
  1.2 miles away
• Iglesia de San José de Capellaníawalkable
  1.3 miles away
• Templo del Hospicio, Cochabamba

  Catholicism
  1.7 miles away
• Templo Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes
  1.7 miles away
• Capilla del Señor de Wilke
  1.8 miles away
• Templo de San Francisco

  Catholicism
  1.8 miles away
• Iglesia y Convento de Santa Teresa, Cochabamba
  1.8 miles away
• Jesuit Church
  2.0 miles away
• Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Sebastian

  Catholicism
  2.0 miles away
• Iglesia de San Juan de Dios
  2.0 miles away
• Templo de Santo Domingo, Cochabamba
  2.1 miles away
• Capilla Nuestra Señora del Perpetuo Socorro
  2.3 miles away

Getting to church without a car

4 of these are within about a mile and a half, close enough to walk. Many students do not have a car. Check the local transit route on a Sunday, or ask in your campus community whether anyone is walking or driving over. Going with someone the first time makes all the difference.

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