The Totontepec Mixe of Mexico

The Totontepec Mixe of Mexico, numbering approximately 10,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are 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 mostly adhere to Folk Catholicism and Totontepec Mixe is their primary language.

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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

For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is plentiful redemption.
readPsalm 130:7b

Pray for those who are unaware of God's steadfast love that is offered to them through Jesus Christ to learn the truth and experience His plentiful redemption.

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
readPsalm 1:1-2

Pray that God will call out many sons and daughters from among them and give them a deep love for His Word.

Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
readPsalm 127:1

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will build their homes in the Lord and raise their children to know and honor Him.

Say among the nations, “The LORD reigns! Yes, the world is established; it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity.”
readPsalm 96:10

Pray for God to put in the hearts of believers to go to the lost and testify about the Lord who reigns.

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

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1 people group

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