After over 60 years of missionary and Evangelical Ministry effort many of these groups have received the Good News with joy. It is estimated that 123 of the 290 groups have been reached. In fact, they have a percentage of Evangelicals over their national rate. In these groups their churches are independent, self-governed, and plant other churches.
 There are about 98 ethnic groups considered non-discipled. These are the ones that have churches in a development process, but their membership is still low, among other things, they need to be reached with specific prayer as well, they need some Pastor training and some appropriate equipment supplied. We have to recognize that the 90% of the evangelization of these groups is being done by people from the same groups, working without any type of help from outside. Many times these workers have no knowledge of any resource made in their language such as tapes, New Testaments, and the movie Jesus which has been translated into their dialect.

Besides these native Mexican groups, there are some others that have recently arrived, such as Chinese, Arabs, who also need missionary work focused on their needs. We also have some Guatemalans. We call these 24 ethnic groups "unreached" because the seed of the Gospel has not been planted in them yet, you may wonder why...the reason is that there are several factors that cause these groups to be isolated. Among these causes are the following:

*Geography à Many of them live in the mountains and rural areas.

*Language barriers àThere are many critical variants in most of the language families.

*Culture à Resistance to change, fear for what is outside their atmosphere, which sometimes they consider a to be hostile to their way of life.

*Religion àThey have been taught to hate and fear Evangelicals, and many of them are persecuted for religious reasons.

*Politics à Many people in office rather keep their local ethnic groups in ignorance and poverty sometimes for their own political and financial profit
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*Spiritual warfare à The practice of witchcraft, santeria, idolatry, old traditions and superstitions that still linger among them going against the gospel teachings.

THE CHALLENGE

Missionaries called to work in this field, should be strong enough to live in these hostile communities, willing to learn the language and culture, be able to give up their own way of life and live a humble way of life in service, showing the love of Christ wisely in a cultural and sensitive way. Our task today is to find God's provision and cultural resources that will give them a better understanding of Salvation.