Southern Mexico is home to one of the most diverse and spiritually complex regions in the world. Oaxaca alone has more than 160 distinct indigenous languages and hundreds of small, isolated communities scattered across the Sierra Mountains. Many villages remain unreached with the gospel, with strong barriers of geography, culture, and religion. Evangelicals make up less than 7% of Mexico’s population overall, and in many cities and villages, that number drops below 2%.

To Every Tribe’s strategy in Southern Mexico is to work with a national platform church in Oaxaca City that serves as a launching pad for church planting in remote indigenous villages. This platform provides a place for missionary logistical support, networking with other local churches, and receiving new workers. From there, missionaries are focused on planting and nurturing indigenous-led, self-sustaining churches in nearby communities where no evangelical presence exists.

Currently, our missionaries are deeply involved in a local church in Oaxaca City and are actively evangelizing and gathering believers in an indigenous village that previously didn’t have an established evangelical church. Weekly discipleship and outreach ministries are underway, with a long-term vision of multiplying healthy, reproducing, and indigenous-led churches across the region.