People group profile · PG048650
The Huehuetla Tepehua of Mexico
The Huehuetla Tepehua of Mexico, numbering about 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 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 Huehuetla Tepehua.
Fast facts
- Country
- Mexico
- Population
- 3,500
- Affinity group
- American Peoples
- People cluster
- Central American Indigenous
- Primary language
- Huehuetla Tepehua (tee)
- Primary religion
- Folk Catholicism
- Strategic Progress Index ?
- No Longer Unreached
- Evangelical
- 10% or Greater but Less than 15%
- GSEC ?
- 10% or Greater Evangelical
- Lostness priority ?
- Moderately Reached People Group
- Region
- Central America, Americas
- Location
- Hidalgo: Huehuetla; Puebla: half of Mecapalapa town; Veracruz: northwest
Where they live
Gospel status
The Huehuetla Tepehua are No Longer Unreached, which means 2% or more are evangelical Christians. In GSEC terms, this people group is greater than or equal to 10% evangelical.
- Congregations exist Yes
- Church planting in the last two years No Churches Planted
Next steps for the Huehuetla Tepehua
- 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
Folk Catholicism · Christianity
77% adherents
Primary language
Huehuetla Tepehua · Totonacan family
83% speak Huehuetla Tepehua
Gospel resources in Huehuetla Tepehua
- Bible available, published 2009
- JESUS Film not available
- Radio programs not available
- Gospel recordings available
- Audio resources available
- Bible stories not available
Bibles
- 1976, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. · video, audio, text
Find more at the JESUS Film Project, Bible.com and Faith Comes by Hearing.
Pray for the Huehuetla Tepehua
- Romans 10:14–15. Ask God to send messengers, so that people can hear, believe and call on the name of the Lord.
- Matthew 9:37–38. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest field.
- 2 Timothy 2:2. Pray for faithful local leaders who will teach others, so that the church multiplies.
- Ephesians 5:8. Pray that those walking in darkness will turn to the light and live as children of light.
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