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PEOPLE GROUP PROFILE

The Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl of Mexico

The Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl of Mexico, numbering approximately 291,000 people, are No Longer Unreached. They are an ethnolinguistic community of Mexico and can also be known as Náhuatl del Sureste de Puebla, Tehuacán Náhuatl. They are an Indigenous people, in the Aztec people cluster of the Latin-Caribbean Americans affinity bloc. Their primary religion is Christianity - Folk Catholicism. They primarily speak Nahuatl, Southeastern Puebla.

Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl in United States photo
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Fast Facts:

Affinity Group: American Peoples
Country: Mexico
People Cluster: Aztec
Primary Language(s): Nahuatl, Southeastern Puebla (npl)
Primary Religion(s): Christianity - Folk Catholicism
Population: 291,000
Strategic Progress Index (SPI): No Longer Unreached
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC): 2% or Greater but Less than 5% Evangelical
People Group ID: PG039193

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Dig Deeper (Religion):

Primary Religion: Christianity - Folk Catholicism
Religious Affiliation: Christianity

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Christianity - Folk Catho… Adherents

Dig Deeper (Language):

Primary Language: Nahuatl, Southeastern Puebla
Language Family: Uto-Aztecan

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Nahuatl, Southeastern Puebla Speakers

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Next steps for the Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl

The Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl are Unengaged and Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations among which there are no known efforts focused on establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

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Next steps for the Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl

The Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl are Engaged yet Unreached, which means there are less than 2% evangelical Christian populations but there are sustained efforts at establishing self-sustaining churches consistent with evangelical faith and practice.

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

Next steps for the Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl

The Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl 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.

Empower local believers to begin praying for their own people
Continue gospel seed sowing and church planting among this group
Encourage local leaders to being leading church planting strategy and looking for Unreached and Unengaged groups nearby

Pray specifically for the Southeastern Puebla Nahuatl of Mexico

When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
readMatthew 9:36

Pray that those who have no hope and are in need of a Savior will be comforted by the Good Shepherd, who seeks to gather the lost and weary into His care.

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
readIsaiah 40:8

Pray that everyone has access to God's Word and that those who hear the good news will turn from their sins and put their faith in Jesus the Messiah.

So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
readRomans 6:11

Pray that as people place their faith in Christ, they will lay down all evil desires, dying to sin and living for Him alone.

"Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water."
readJohn 7:38

Ask God to raise up believers and sustain them as they cross cultures to share hope with those who need it. Pray that many might come to know Christ and that streams of living water will flow from their hearts so they will never thirst again.

Nahuatl, Southeastern Puebla (ROP3 - 107021) reported in the following countries:

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