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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Huehuetla Tepehua of Mexico

The Huehuetla Tepehua of Mexico, numbering approximately 3,500 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Totonacan-speaking farming people of Hidalgo's mountainous Huehuetla district, whose Nahuatl-derived name means people of the mountain, living amid Otomi and mestizo neighbors along the Hidalgo-Veracruz borderlands. They mostly adhere to Folk Catholicism and Huehuetla Tepehua is their primary language.

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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: Latin American and Caribbean Peoples
Country: Mexico
People Cluster: Central American Indigenous
Primary Language(s): Huehuetla Tepehua (tee)
Primary Religion(s): Folk Catholicism
Population: 3,500
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 10% or Greater Evangelical
People Group ID: PG048650
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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Folk Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

77%
%
Folk Catholicism Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Huehuetla Tepehua
Language Family: Totonacan

83%
%
Tepehua, Huehuetla Speakers

Media Resources in Huehuetla Tepehua:

Films:

No film resources are listed for this language.

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Bible Resources in Huehuetla Tepehua:

Bible Name (Translation)VideoAudioText
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1 entry

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SPI: No longer Unreached

The Huehuetla Tepehua 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 Huehuetla Tepehua:
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 Huehuetla Tepehua of Mexico

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 those who are lost in darkness and confusion will come to understand God's ways, submit to His righteous rule, and experience the joy of His salvation.

Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the peoples praise you!
readPsalm 67:5

While there are many who do not yet praise God, pray that He will work in their lives, advance the gospel among them, and bring many to saving faith in Christ.

You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
readDeuteronomy 6:5

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will love the Lord their God with all their heart, soul, and might, as they strive to live lives that honor and glorify Him.

To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law.
read1 Corinthians 9:20

Pray that believers from similar cultures will be compelled by Christ's love to reach people who don't know the gospel, and that those people will receive the good news with joy.

Tepehua, Huehuetla Across Countries (ROP3 - 103895) reported in the following countries:

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1 people group

PhotoPeople Group IDNameCountryPopulation ▼Strategic Progress IndexLanguageReligion
Huehuetla TepehuaPG048650Huehuetla TepehuaMexico3,500No Longer UnreachedHuehuetla TepehuaFolk Catholicism

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