People group profile · PG024751
The Uspantec of Guatemala
The Uspantec of Guatemala, numbering about 5,400 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are a Maya people whose ancestors have continuously inhabited the highland trade capital of Uspantan in Guatemala's Quiche department since roughly 500 AD, speaking the severely endangered tonal language Uspanteko.
They are an indigenous people in the Central American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Ethnoreligion, and they primarily speak Uspanteco.
Fast facts
- Country
- Guatemala
- Population
- 5,400
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Central American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Uspanteco (usp)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5%
- GSEC
- 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Marginally Reached People Group
- Region
- Central America, Americas
- Location
- Quiché department: Chicamán municipio, Las Pacayas village is center; San Miguel Uspantán municipio area
Where they live
Gospel status
The Uspantec are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 2% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Uspantec
- Pray for the churches among this group to grow in faithfulness and maturity
- Equip believers to reach the unreached peoples around them
- Send out laborers from this people to the nations
Primary religion
Primary language
Uspanteco · Mayan family
100% speak Uspanteco
Gospel resources in Uspanteco
- Bible available, published 2010
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Uspanteco)
Bibles
- 1999 Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc. · audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Uspantec
- Revelation 7:9. Pray for the day when people from this group stand before the throne with every nation, tribe, people and language.
- John 17:3. Pray that many will come to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he has sent.
- Psalm 27:1. Pray that new believers will be strengthened in the face of persecution, with the Lord as their stronghold.
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
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