On a daily basis we get questions from people wondering why we would move to South Asia to plant churches. Reasons people question us range from there being needs here as well as fear for our family. To be clear, we believe that there are needs everywhere for people to hear the gospel message, but at this time in our lives, God has placed the unreached people groups on our heart and called us to go to them. And most of these unreached people groups are found in South Asia.
In July we answered the question, "Why Move to South Asia to Plant Churches?"http://t.co/OlC95aa, in which we quoted the statistic from Desiring God International that over 70% of Asian's have yet to hear of Jesus Christ, even for the first time. Today, we would like to take a moment to answer exactly what is an unreached people group so that you will sense the need that there is for these people to hear the gospel message for the very first time. In fact, on a regular basis we receive this exact question from people, "What is an unreached people group?"
What Is an Unreached People Group? from Pioneers-USA on Vimeo.
In order to answer that question today we are going to quote a Pioneer in Central Asia, from the video above, who says of unreached people groups, "We're not talking about people who are lost and don't know the Lord; we're talking about people who are lost and don't know the Lord and there's no one that speaks their language that can tell them. There is no church that exists... That's an unreached people group."
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