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The Mescalero Apache of United States

The Mescalero Apache of United States, numbering approximately 3,800 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Native American tribe belonging to the Eastern division of the Apache peoples, part of the larger Athabaskan language family. They mostly adhere to Protestantism and Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache is their primary language.

Photo by Google. (2026). Image generated by Gemini 3.1 Flash: Mescalero Apache

Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: North American Peoples
Country: United States
People Cluster: North American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache (apm)
Primary Religion(s): Protestantism
Population: 3,800
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG043542
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Protestantism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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%
Protestantism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache
Language Family: Athabaskan-Eyak-Tlingit

50%
%
Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua Speakers

Media Resources in Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache:

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Bible Resources in Mescalero-Chiricahua Apache:

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Mescalero Apache 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 Mescalero Apache:
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 Mescalero Apache of United States

During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
readExodus 2:23-24

As the lost among them labor, groan, and cry out under false religions and sin, pray God will have mercy on them and hear their cries, that He will be their Rescuer from the kingdom of darkness and bring them into the kingdom of light.

So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.
readRomans 9:16

Pray that the merciful God who is at work in people's hearts will advance His gospel among them.

But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
readHebrews 10:39

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, and faithfully follow God, they will share Christ boldly with those around them.

May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations.
readPsalm 67:1-2

Pray that as God blesses believers from among this people group or from nearby cultures, He will raise them up to share His saving power among the nations.

Apache, Mescalero Across Countries (ROP3 - 106563) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Mescalero ApachePG043542Mescalero ApacheUnited States3,800No Longer UnreachedMescalero-Chiricahua ApacheProtestantism

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