People group profile · PG024933
The Central Pame of Mexico
The Central Pame of Mexico, numbering about 12,500 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are a people who call themselves Re Nuye Eyya, descended from nomadic Chichimeca hunter-gatherers who lived north of the Aztec Empire, dominating Queretaro's Sierra Madre Oriental while resisting Junipero Serra's mid-18th-century missionary efforts.
They are an indigenous people in the Central American Indigenous people cluster of the Latin American and Caribbean Peoples. Their primary religion is Folk Catholicism, and they primarily speak Central Pame.
Fast facts
- Country
- Mexico
- Population
- 12,500
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Central American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Central Pame (pbs)
- Primary religion
- Folk Catholicism
- Strategic Progress Index
- Engaged yet Unreached
- Evangelical
- Less than 2%
- GSEC
- Less than 2% Evangelical, No Recent CP Activity
- Lostness priority
- Expanding Unreached People Group
- Region
- Central America, Americas
- Location
- El Madrono area, Queretaro de Arteaga; San Luis Potosí: Lagunillas, Santa Catarina, and Santa María Acapulco
Where they live
Gospel status
The Central Pame are Engaged yet Unreached, which means fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians, but there are sustained efforts to establish self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice. In GSEC terms, this people group is less than 2% evangelical, some evangelical resources are available, but there has been no active church planting among them within the past two years.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Central Pame
- Continue prayer and fasting for this group
- Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
- Begin training up local leaders to lead and develop strategies to reach their own people
Primary religion
Folk Catholicism · Christianity
93% adherents
Primary language
Central Pame · Otomanguean family
89% speak Central Pame
Gospel resources in Central Pame
- Bible available, published 2017
- JESUS Film available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Films
- JESUS (Pame, Central)
Bibles
- 1998 Bible League · video, audio
- 1998 The Bible League · text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Central Pame
- Romans 12:4–5. Pray that believers from many cultures will work together as one body so that the church is built up.
- 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.
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