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 have churches in a development process, but their membership is still low, among other things, they need to be reached with specific prayer, training for their Pastors, and use of appropriate equipment. We have to recognize that the 90% of the evangelization of these groups is being done by people from the same group, 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 have 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 24 ethnic groups "unreached" because the seed of the Gospel has not been planted yet, you may ask why? There are several aspects that take place in these groups isolation. Among these are the following:

*Geography à Many of them live in the mountains.

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

*Culture à Resistance to change, fear for what is outside their atmosphere, which sometimes turns into hostility.

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

*Politics à Many people in power that are rather keep their local ethnic groups in ignorance and poverty.

*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 among 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 culturally and sensitive way. We will have to find God's provision, cultural resources that give them a better understanding of the Word of Salvation.