People group profile · PG024791
The Paya-Pech of Honduras
The Paya-Pech of Honduras, numbering about 6,300 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are descendants of Chibchan-speaking migrants from South America who settled Honduras roughly three thousand years ago, later withdrawing into the Olancho and Colon highlands under pressure from Miskito raids.
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 Pech.
Fast facts
- Country
- Honduras
- Population
- 6,300
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Central American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Pech (pay)
- Primary religion
- Ethnoreligion
- Strategic Progress Index
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10%
- GSEC
- 5% or Greater but Less than 10% Evangelical
- Lostness priority
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- Central America, Americas
Where they live
Gospel status
The Paya-Pech are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 5% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Paya-Pech
- 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
90% adherents
Primary language
Pech · Chibchan family
30% speak Pech
Gospel resources in Pech
- Bible not available
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources not available
- Bible stories not available
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Paya-Pech
- 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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