The Totontepec Mixe of Mexico

The Totontepec Mixe of Mexico, numbering approximately 10,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are described as a highland Mixe-speaking indigenous community centered in Totontepec Villa de Morelos in Oaxaca, representing a distinct local expression of the broader Ayuujk (Mixe) ethnolinguistic group, with identity anchored in their dialect, territory, and tradition They are an Indigenous people, with Mixe as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Mixe people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Catholicism. They primarily speak Totontepec Mixe.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Mexico
People Cluster: Mixe
Primary Language(s): Totontepec Mixe (mto)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Catholicism
Population: 10,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG039105
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

49%
%
Folk Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Totontepec Mixe
Language Family: Mixe-Zoque

95%
%
Mixe, Totontepec Speakers

Media Resources in Totontepec Mixe:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

Bible Resources in Totontepec Mixe:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
1990 Edition✓✓✓

1 entry

Or check out the Totontepec Mixe bible at Bible.com

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Totontepec Mixe are No Longer Unreached, which means there are more than 2% evangelical Christian populations and there are churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. There is still more to be done among them.

Next steps for the Totontepec Mixe:
Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Totontepec Mixe of Mexico

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
readMatthew 5:6

Pray for those who are lost to desire righteousness and to be filled with the peace and purpose that only comes from following Jesus.

Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth.
readPsalm 67:4

Pray that God will use ways from in-person witnesses to digital gospel resources to bring the joy of His salvation to everyone so that they can be glad in Him and sing for joy.

But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit.
readTitus 3:4-5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ and might struggle with temptation to trust in their own works, they will remember that it is only because of God's mercy that they have been saved.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
read2 Corinthians 1:3-4

Pray that as people hear and believe the gospel, they will serve others in Jesus' name, and the lost will have an opportunity to hear and respond to the gospel.

Mixe, Totontepec Across Countries (ROP3 - 107452) reported in the following countries:

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