1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,239 Speaker 1: Let us pray. And when they were come into the house, 2 00:00:03,320 --> 00:00:06,440 Speaker 1: they saw the young child with Mary, his mother, and 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:10,080 Speaker 1: fell down and worshiped him. And when they had opened 4 00:00:10,080 --> 00:00:15,440 Speaker 1: their treasures, they presented unto him gifts gold and frankincense 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 1: and myrrh. Matthew two eleven, dearest Father, What a powerful 6 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: moment when those wise men who followed the star finally 7 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:32,200 Speaker 1: saw it resting over the humble stable. They brought treasure 8 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:35,800 Speaker 1: to offer the newly born King of the Jews. But 9 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,240 Speaker 1: I doubt they ever imagined they would find him lying 10 00:00:38,240 --> 00:00:41,559 Speaker 1: in a stable on a bed of straw, and not 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 1: in some fine gold embroidered bedding. I wondered what they 12 00:00:46,920 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: thought when they entered into the stable among the animals 13 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:54,040 Speaker 1: and saw the delicate Virgin with her newly born son. 14 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 1: They must have been hit with the power of the 15 00:00:57,360 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: Holy Spirit as they fell down their knees to worship 16 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:07,200 Speaker 1: him and gave him all their treasures. Lord, in your presence, 17 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 1: I am humbled and kneel down before you in adoration. 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,680 Speaker 1: I open my heart to give you all my treasures 19 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:21,840 Speaker 1: and withhold nothing from you. You are worthy of all 20 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,160 Speaker 1: I have, all I am, and all I ever hope 21 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:29,319 Speaker 1: to be. I am nothing without you, my precious Lord, 22 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 1: without your love, without your birth, without your suffering, I 23 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:41,680 Speaker 1: would have nothing. You are my Lord and Savior, the 24 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: one true King of all the earth. I humbly offer you, 25 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: my heart, Lord Jesus, in devotion and gratitude for all 26 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: you have done to bring peace to this earth and 27 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: good will toward me in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you 28 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,720 Speaker 1: for listening to today's daily prayer. For more inspiration and 29 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: an incredible message from our feature pastor, stay tuned to 30 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 1: pray dot COM's Sunday service. 31 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 2: Jesus gave an assignment two thousand years ago go make 32 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 2: disciples of all nations, not just all the countries in 33 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,520 Speaker 2: the world that we're supposed to reach. We've actually already 34 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:38,400 Speaker 2: done that, but there are still seven thousand groups in 35 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 2: the countries of the world that need to be reached 36 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 2: with the Gospel, and those are the groups that Jesus 37 00:02:42,919 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 2: is talking about. 38 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 3: Welcome to Missions Insider Podcast and inside look at the 39 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:55,239 Speaker 3: world's most difficult mission fields. Welcome back to another episode 40 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 3: of the Mission's Insider Podcast, and today we have Dave 41 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 3: it but Goes in with us and we will be 42 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 3: talking about reaching the last frontiers with the Gospel. 43 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:09,720 Speaker 2: It's good to be here with you guys, and I. 44 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:12,600 Speaker 3: Have a question right off, and that is, but what 45 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,880 Speaker 3: do you consider a frontier area if we're talking about 46 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 3: reaching the last frontiers with the gospel. 47 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 4: It's a great question. 48 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 2: And obviously, you know, you can define frontiers many different ways, 49 00:03:25,480 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 2: and specifically, you know, what we're talking about here are 50 00:03:28,639 --> 00:03:32,040 Speaker 2: frontiers of the Gospel, and so these are places and 51 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:35,120 Speaker 2: these are language groups and people groups that have least 52 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 2: access to the Gospel, at least access to believers and 53 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,440 Speaker 2: the churches, and very specifically, you know, for us at 54 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 2: Christian AID, we're thinking about unreached people groups, and there 55 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 2: are still seven thousand unreached people groups in the world 56 00:03:48,080 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 2: and over three billion people that live in those people groups. 57 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 2: So frontier areas are places where people have the least 58 00:03:55,960 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 2: opportunity to hear about Jesus, the least opportunity to meet 59 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 2: a believer. They are not going to have a believer 60 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 2: as their neighbor or maybe even a believer living in 61 00:04:05,440 --> 00:04:07,560 Speaker 2: their community or their town. They may live their whole 62 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,120 Speaker 2: life and never meet a Christian. There are still over 63 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 2: probably a billion people who don't even have access physical 64 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:18,960 Speaker 2: access to a Christian presence, and so these are places 65 00:04:19,040 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 2: where it's difficult to go to. These are places that 66 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,520 Speaker 2: are isolated. So when you think about frontiers, think about 67 00:04:24,520 --> 00:04:28,440 Speaker 2: access and think about just the opportunity that a person 68 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:30,920 Speaker 2: has to hear about Jesus and respond to the gospel. 69 00:04:31,640 --> 00:04:35,040 Speaker 3: All right, Well, you mentioned there being about seven thousand 70 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 3: ethnic groups that still are not reached with gospel, and 71 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:42,480 Speaker 3: that's what we refer to as an unreached people group. 72 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 3: And is that the criteria just that they haven't been reached. 73 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, So that's another great question. A lot of terminology 74 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 2: to define here when we talk about unreached people groups 75 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:55,720 Speaker 2: and frontiers. So what is an unreached people group? And 76 00:04:55,800 --> 00:04:58,040 Speaker 2: quite simply, a people group is, like you said, an 77 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,880 Speaker 2: ethnic group or a language group where there's not an 78 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:06,160 Speaker 2: established indigenous church. There may even be churches nearby, but 79 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 2: there's not a church in their culture, in their language. 80 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:13,280 Speaker 2: When Missiologists were first thinking about what to call these 81 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,480 Speaker 2: groups of people, they first called them hidden people groups 82 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 2: because they said, look, these people groups could be living 83 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 2: right in your own town, in your own community. We 84 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:25,159 Speaker 2: don't see them. And so even for example, here in 85 00:05:25,160 --> 00:05:27,640 Speaker 2: the United States, we have this, you know, right here 86 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 2: in Charlottesville, Virginia, we have many people that are in 87 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:35,080 Speaker 2: placed here from Afghanistan and many other countries, and they's 88 00:05:35,080 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 2: somewhat hidden to us. We don't see them coming to 89 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:40,280 Speaker 2: our churches on Sunday, right, So we have to go 90 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,840 Speaker 2: to them. And that's what's significant about an unreached people group. 91 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 2: These are people that are very unlikely to come into 92 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 2: our churches. But these are people that we need to 93 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:52,160 Speaker 2: go to them. And in order to go to them, 94 00:05:52,520 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 2: we might have to give up some of the things 95 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,000 Speaker 2: that we like, right, because they're different than us, and 96 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:01,400 Speaker 2: they think different and their cultures are different. That's where 97 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 2: you have to put on your mission hat and you 98 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 2: have to start thinking like a missionary if you want 99 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:08,920 Speaker 2: to reach people like Afghan refugees. I remember a friend 100 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 2: of mine here in town. He wanted to introduce himself 101 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,360 Speaker 2: to the Afghan refugees that were coming here to Charlottesville. 102 00:06:15,400 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 2: He's a great guy, he's a pastor, and so without 103 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 2: even thinking, he went and got some flowers, He went 104 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 2: and bought some roses, and he went and knocked on 105 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:24,960 Speaker 2: the door of a refugee family and they're the person 106 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:28,720 Speaker 2: who opened that door was the wife, you know, the mother, 107 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,560 Speaker 2: and he hands this person some flowers. Okay, that doesn't 108 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,520 Speaker 2: go over very well in Afghan culture, right. So there's 109 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 2: just things that we have to learn. We want to 110 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,960 Speaker 2: reach places in people groups that are very different from 111 00:06:40,040 --> 00:06:41,799 Speaker 2: us and that don't know about Jesus. 112 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:45,680 Speaker 3: How many people would you say haven't been reached with 113 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 3: the gospel? Do you have that number? 114 00:06:47,960 --> 00:06:50,159 Speaker 2: It's a great question, and obviously you know, the only 115 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 2: thing we can do is estimate. But our best estimate 116 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,240 Speaker 2: that we have is that they're probably around three billion 117 00:06:55,279 --> 00:06:58,279 Speaker 2: people that are in this category of least rich with 118 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 2: the Gospel, that are without acts Us. And what that 119 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:03,919 Speaker 2: means is that these people, unless we take the initiative, 120 00:07:03,960 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 2: they will live and die without ever hearing the name 121 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 2: of Jesus Christ, without ever hearing the gospel. And that's 122 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 2: the important thing to understand about mission. Mission is something 123 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,680 Speaker 2: that requires us to cross over barriers to get to 124 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:21,600 Speaker 2: people that are without access, and those barriers can be multiple. 125 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 2: Most people that are without access to the gospel live 126 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,600 Speaker 2: in places that we call restricted access countries. That means 127 00:07:28,640 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 2: you can't openly share about Jesus. In those places, you 128 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,520 Speaker 2: can't go as a missionary to those places. The cool 129 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 2: thing is in all of those places, God has his people. 130 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,360 Speaker 2: And that's the important thing about the strategy of Christian 131 00:07:40,360 --> 00:07:43,000 Speaker 2: aity is that we partner with people living in these 132 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:46,000 Speaker 2: countries where you and I can't go. Where you and 133 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 2: I if we were to go there and start sharing 134 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 2: about Jesus, we'd be sent out of the country very quickly. 135 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:53,120 Speaker 4: We would be expelled. 136 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 2: But these people, they are willing to go to prison, 137 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,480 Speaker 2: and when they get caught, they don't get expelled from 138 00:07:57,520 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 2: their country. 139 00:07:58,000 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 4: They go to jail. 140 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 2: But they keep sharing Jesus even in those contexts, Which 141 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,600 Speaker 2: is why we pair up what we do in equipping 142 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 2: indigenous ministries with persecution assistance, because in most places where 143 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 2: there's least access to the Gospel, there's intense persecution, and 144 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:15,240 Speaker 2: so we bring those two things together in our ministry. 145 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 5: Would you share some examples of some of these restricted areas. 146 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:23,760 Speaker 5: Are there concentrations of these unreached people groups in particular regions? 147 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 4: Absolutely? So. 148 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 2: You may have heard of a region called the ten 149 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 2: forty window. If you haven't, you can go to a 150 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:32,720 Speaker 2: map and you can look at ten degrees and forty 151 00:08:32,760 --> 00:08:36,920 Speaker 2: degrees latitude and it's basically capturing the area of North Africa, 152 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 2: Middle East, South Asia, Central Asia, East Asia, which includes 153 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 2: China and North Korea, and also Southeast Asia. You have 154 00:08:44,559 --> 00:08:47,600 Speaker 2: over four billion people that live in the ten forty window, 155 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 2: and these are places that are predominantly non Christians. So 156 00:08:50,800 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 2: most of the countries in the ten forty window are Muslim, Hindu, 157 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,040 Speaker 2: and Buddhist, and some of them, like in China and 158 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 2: Vietnam and Laos, these are communist countries that highly restrict 159 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,280 Speaker 2: access to the Gospel. Vietnam is a great example of this. 160 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 2: Vietnam is a place where the government has decided that 161 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 2: they want to put a freeze on where Christians were 162 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 2: when they took over. Similar thing happened in China and Laos. 163 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 2: They just tried to eradicate Christianity. But in Vietnam they 164 00:09:18,080 --> 00:09:21,520 Speaker 2: have said, okay, certain areas, certain provinces, certain sections of 165 00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 2: the country where there was never any gospel presence, you 166 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 2: cannot proclaim the Gospel there. So in the South, most 167 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:29,880 Speaker 2: of the Christians were in the south because that's where 168 00:09:30,679 --> 00:09:34,240 Speaker 2: Christianity really took root. There's a large number of Christians 169 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 2: in the North. You can find thousands and thousands of 170 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 2: villages without a church, So how are we going to 171 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,000 Speaker 2: reach those people? Well, the good news is that the 172 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:44,400 Speaker 2: church in Vietnam has a commitment to doing that, even 173 00:09:44,440 --> 00:09:47,839 Speaker 2: though it's dangerous, even though it's difficult. It's difficult for 174 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:50,600 Speaker 2: them to get resources, to get Bibles, it's difficult for 175 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 2: them to train leaders, it's difficult for them to get around. 176 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 2: And so we help them do all those things. And 177 00:09:55,320 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 2: this is what we do in over eighty countries. We 178 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 2: work in places and in countries where it's the most 179 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:03,640 Speaker 2: difficult for the Gospel to be proclaimed. That's what we 180 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 2: specialize in is equipping our brothers and sisters who are 181 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 2: doing the work that you and I can't do. But 182 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:11,600 Speaker 2: they're doing the kingdom work. And we're all on the 183 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 2: same team. And the Bible calls us the body of Christ, 184 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:17,240 Speaker 2: and it says each of us has a special role 185 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,920 Speaker 2: to play. And God has given the persecuted Church a 186 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,719 Speaker 2: very special role to play in these last moments, if 187 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,720 Speaker 2: you will, in the history of the Great Commission, the 188 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:30,640 Speaker 2: final frontiers of the Great Commission, the places that have 189 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:34,280 Speaker 2: yet to hear are in these places that are restricted access, 190 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:37,160 Speaker 2: where only the persecuted Church can go. There and so 191 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:39,520 Speaker 2: it's up to us living in the free world to 192 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,000 Speaker 2: link arms together with them. 193 00:10:41,000 --> 00:10:41,880 Speaker 4: Well, how do you do that? 194 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:44,320 Speaker 2: Not easy to do, right, And that's why God raised 195 00:10:44,400 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 2: up a ministry like Christian Aid over fifty years ago. 196 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:52,600 Speaker 2: Our founder Bob Finley saw this coming. He saw the 197 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 2: iron curtain, you know, he grew up and he saw 198 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:56,880 Speaker 2: these things happening all over the world, and he said, 199 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:59,440 Speaker 2: there's going to need to be a ministry that works 200 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:04,319 Speaker 2: with the church these behind these places, behind these closed doors, 201 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,040 Speaker 2: that works with them and equips them to take the 202 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 2: Gospel to these last places that I never heard. 203 00:11:09,840 --> 00:11:13,680 Speaker 5: So I have a question that may sound kind of obvious, 204 00:11:14,000 --> 00:11:17,880 Speaker 5: but what is the importance of reaching these unreached people groups. 205 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,400 Speaker 2: It's a great question. One of the things that I 206 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 2: love to talk about is we are approaching the two 207 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:26,600 Speaker 2: thousand year anniversary of when Jesus gave the Great commission. 208 00:11:27,000 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 2: Jesus gave it an assignment two thousand years ago to 209 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:32,679 Speaker 2: take the Gospel to all ethnic groups. If you look 210 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,840 Speaker 2: at the Greek terminology, there when Jesus gave the great commission, 211 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,640 Speaker 2: go make disciples of all nations, the word nation there 212 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: is the word ethnos in the Greek, which means ethnic groups. 213 00:11:42,120 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 2: So it's not just all the countries in the world 214 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,240 Speaker 2: that we're supposed to reach. We've actually already done that. 215 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:48,840 Speaker 2: We've taken the Gospel to every country. But there are 216 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 2: still seven thousand groups within the countries of the world 217 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 2: that need to be reached with the Gospel, and those 218 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,000 Speaker 2: are the groups that Jesus is talking about. Countries come 219 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 2: and go throughout history, butnic groups, these groups have been 220 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:04,840 Speaker 2: around for thousands of years. My last name Bogosian, that's Armenian, 221 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,240 Speaker 2: and Armenians have been around for thousands of years, and 222 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 2: they're proud to be Armenians, and they make sure their 223 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 2: kids learn Armenian or wherever they are, they love. They're 224 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 2: very proud to be Armenian. These are the kinds of 225 00:12:15,240 --> 00:12:18,640 Speaker 2: people that Jesus has been talking about. Armenians didn't have 226 00:12:18,720 --> 00:12:21,600 Speaker 2: a country for thousands of years, but they retained their language, 227 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:23,840 Speaker 2: retain their culture, and they're very proud of who they are. 228 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:26,360 Speaker 2: So there are thousands of groups like this in the world, 229 00:12:26,360 --> 00:12:28,840 Speaker 2: and many of them are still unreached with the Gospel. 230 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 4: So Jesus wants us to reach all of them. 231 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 2: And in the Book of Revelation when we see everything 232 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 2: coming together, when we see the ultimate fulfillment of all things, 233 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 2: and Revelation five nine and seven nine it talks about 234 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:44,920 Speaker 2: representatives of every nation, tried, people, and language, standing before 235 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 2: the throne, worshiping the lamb. And this is ultimately where 236 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:52,320 Speaker 2: we're headed. God wants to bring everybody in, all these 237 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 2: peoples that he created. In the Book of Acts, it 238 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 2: tells us that God created all the peoples of the world, 239 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 2: and he designated the place is where they should live. 240 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,480 Speaker 2: And so these people groups are very precious in God's sight. 241 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:06,600 Speaker 2: When Jesus came, when he died on the cross, the 242 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 2: Bible talks about the joy set before him. This is 243 00:13:09,679 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 2: what he was thinking about. All the nations of the 244 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,760 Speaker 2: world gathered back before his throne. 245 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,839 Speaker 5: So what happens when they're all reached. It sounds like 246 00:13:17,920 --> 00:13:19,559 Speaker 5: we'll probably just be out of business. 247 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 2: That's a great question. And you know what, we do 248 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:24,319 Speaker 2: want to go out of business. So that is ultimately 249 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 2: our goal is to hear the final trumpet sound. And 250 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 2: Jesus told us he said in Matthew twenty four fourteen, 251 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 2: when the Gospel has been proclaimed to all nations, the 252 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,800 Speaker 2: end will come and the end that he's talking about 253 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,200 Speaker 2: is his second coming. It's not the end of the 254 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:40,439 Speaker 2: world per se, but it's the end of Satan's reign 255 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:42,920 Speaker 2: in this world. And there's only one verse in the 256 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:45,920 Speaker 2: Bible where it says Satan gets angry. Revelation twelve, verse twelve. 257 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 2: It says he's filled with fury when he sees his 258 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:51,520 Speaker 2: time getting shorts. And the Bible says something very interesting, 259 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 2: and two Peter three twelve it says that we are 260 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 2: to look forward to the day of Christ coming and 261 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:00,440 Speaker 2: speed it is coming. Think about that that is found 262 00:14:00,559 --> 00:14:02,840 Speaker 2: on many different levels. I mean, just wrap your mind 263 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 2: around that theologically that God has entrusted to us an 264 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:09,480 Speaker 2: assignment that when we finish it, this thing called the 265 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:12,120 Speaker 2: end is going to come. So we can literally accelerate 266 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 2: the day of Christ coming through our obedience to the 267 00:14:15,200 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 2: Great commission. 268 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 5: I know you've mentioned before that the Gospel is spreading 269 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:26,320 Speaker 5: more rapidly now than say, in the past five ten years. 270 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 5: Why is this the case in what's making the difference? 271 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's amazing what's happening today. We're seeing an acceleration 272 00:14:35,520 --> 00:14:38,000 Speaker 2: of the Gospel like we've never seen before. I mean, 273 00:14:38,040 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 2: we look at the Book of Acts, we look at 274 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:42,200 Speaker 2: the first century, how the Gospel spread during that time. 275 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 2: It was incredible. In just you know that one hundred 276 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:48,240 Speaker 2: years the Gospel moved from Spain all the way to 277 00:14:48,280 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 2: the China Sea. We believe in just one hundred years. 278 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 2: And now today, you know, in the twenty first century, 279 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 2: we're witnessing something similar. And part of the reason for 280 00:14:57,600 --> 00:15:03,400 Speaker 2: that is technology. So technology has changed everything. Right, if 281 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:05,640 Speaker 2: you think about what was it that allowed the Gospel 282 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,960 Speaker 2: to spread so quickly in the first century, it was 283 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 2: an innovation called the Roman Roads and the Silk Road, 284 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:14,920 Speaker 2: and part of that still exists today, the old silk rope. Well, 285 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 2: that enabled that highway system enabled the Gospel to move 286 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 2: just because there was the physical access to those places. 287 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 2: Probably at that time in the first century, seventy five 288 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:30,000 Speaker 2: percent of the world population was accessible along the Silk 289 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 2: Road and the Roman roads. 290 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 4: Well, look at. 291 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,920 Speaker 2: What's happening today. The whole world is becoming connected. We 292 00:15:35,960 --> 00:15:38,520 Speaker 2: can get to any place in the world from the 293 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 2: United States, let's say, probably within forty eight hours. There 294 00:15:41,680 --> 00:15:43,920 Speaker 2: might be a few exceptions to that, but ninety nine 295 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:47,280 Speaker 2: percent of the world's population is accessible to us, probably 296 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,560 Speaker 2: within twenty four hours. And then there's communication technology. We're 297 00:15:51,560 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 2: able to broadcast the gospel by satellite, We're able to 298 00:15:55,240 --> 00:15:57,920 Speaker 2: send the gospel out through the Internet, and so we're 299 00:15:57,920 --> 00:16:00,680 Speaker 2: able to find people that previously we didn't even know 300 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:02,960 Speaker 2: they had interest in the gospel. So all of these 301 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,160 Speaker 2: things and many many more are causing the gospel to 302 00:16:06,240 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 2: move in a way that's unprecedented. 303 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 5: So you mentioned that in a lot of these restricted 304 00:16:10,520 --> 00:16:15,360 Speaker 5: access countries there are indigenous missionaries on the ground who 305 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:19,280 Speaker 5: are are there reaching people with the gospel. Would you 306 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:22,000 Speaker 5: be able to provide like an example of a ministry 307 00:16:22,080 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 5: that's currently reaching unreached people groups and bringing people to Christ. 308 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:27,560 Speaker 4: Absolutely. 309 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 2: I can give you three hundred examples. Actually, we work 310 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 2: with three hundred indigenous ministries all over the world, and 311 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:35,720 Speaker 2: you know, these are ministries that we've walked with for many, 312 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 2: many years. Some of them just began from a very 313 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:42,320 Speaker 2: small beginning. I think of my sister Marissa, who I 314 00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:44,600 Speaker 2: knew when I was a missionary in the Philippines and 315 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 2: she was just getting started. She was reaching one particular 316 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:49,640 Speaker 2: people group in the southern part of Mendo. Now very 317 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,240 Speaker 2: dangerous work. It was a completely unrestroped no one had 318 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 2: ever gone there before, and she started work there and 319 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 2: then God gave her a vision to move beyond that, 320 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:01,240 Speaker 2: and we begin to grow with her, We begin to 321 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 2: empower her and to invest in a ministry. And today 322 00:17:04,080 --> 00:17:07,200 Speaker 2: they're reaching all thirteen of the Muslim people groups in 323 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:10,160 Speaker 2: Mendo now. And here's the also amazing thing. We walked 324 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:11,920 Speaker 2: with them. We helped to be a catalyst to get 325 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,199 Speaker 2: them started. But now the majority of their funding is 326 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:18,600 Speaker 2: coming from within the Philippines, and we love to see 327 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:20,800 Speaker 2: that happen. In fact, we love to see the day 328 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:24,480 Speaker 2: happen when everybody that we're supporting can become self sufficient. 329 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:26,960 Speaker 2: And we believe that day will come, and we've seen 330 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,600 Speaker 2: that happen in many cases. So we're very excited to 331 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:33,239 Speaker 2: come alongside to build capacity with indigenous ministries that are 332 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,720 Speaker 2: kind of like startups. You can think of Christian Aid 333 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,080 Speaker 2: as kind of like venture capital for the Kingdom, all right, 334 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:41,800 Speaker 2: So we invest in these Kingdom startups that are getting 335 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 2: going in places like Sudan, in places like Afghanistan. We 336 00:17:44,760 --> 00:17:47,760 Speaker 2: just got introduced to a new ministry in Afghanistan, and 337 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:50,199 Speaker 2: so all over the world, in places where you wouldn't 338 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:53,760 Speaker 2: even expect Iraq. Think about Iraq. We're able to partner 339 00:17:53,800 --> 00:17:56,320 Speaker 2: with people in Iraq who are proclaiming the Gospel all 340 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,399 Speaker 2: over the country. So these are exciting times where we 341 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:01,359 Speaker 2: can do things is that we never were able to 342 00:18:01,400 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 2: do before, in part because of the technology, in part 343 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,400 Speaker 2: because of the way God's position in the United States. 344 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 2: And I really want to say this to every American 345 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:12,600 Speaker 2: that's listening. God's given our country a very special privilege, 346 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:15,640 Speaker 2: a very special place in history where He has given 347 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,240 Speaker 2: this one country that's five percent of the world's population 348 00:18:18,680 --> 00:18:21,960 Speaker 2: access to over twenty percent of the world's resources. That 349 00:18:22,080 --> 00:18:24,400 Speaker 2: has never happened before in history, and it gives us 350 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,640 Speaker 2: an incredible responsibility do to something big with the Gospel. 351 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,800 Speaker 2: So here we have a country that's the most evangelical 352 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,639 Speaker 2: country in the world and trusted with most with the 353 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:36,640 Speaker 2: most wealth that any country's ever been given. Put those 354 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 2: two things together, and it doesn't take a lot to 355 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:41,840 Speaker 2: come to the conclusion that God has raised us up 356 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 2: for a very strategic purpose in the fulfillment of the 357 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:45,160 Speaker 2: Great Commission. 358 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:48,119 Speaker 5: I would love to hear a little bit more about, 359 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:51,879 Speaker 5: maybe like some of the strategies and such that indigenous 360 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 5: ministries are using to reach people that have never heard 361 00:18:55,520 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 5: the gospel, they've never heard the name of Christ. Can 362 00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:01,560 Speaker 5: you give an example of of a way that they're 363 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:02,280 Speaker 5: able to do that? 364 00:19:02,760 --> 00:19:03,320 Speaker 4: Absolutely. 365 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,640 Speaker 2: So, you know, we mentioned we were talking about Vietnam earlier, 366 00:19:07,280 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 2: and one of the things that I love that happened 367 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 2: in just you know, the last five years was they 368 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 2: were able to take the gospel to the last people 369 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,360 Speaker 2: groups that had never received their first missionary in Vietnam. 370 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 2: And the way they did that is something that we 371 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 2: call near cultural missions. And this is the way that 372 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 2: most people groups are being reached today with the gospel. 373 00:19:27,680 --> 00:19:30,200 Speaker 2: The gospel has gone so far and so wide, now 374 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:34,240 Speaker 2: the most strategic way to reach the final frontiers is 375 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 2: to do so as a partner with those that are 376 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 2: nearest to those places that need the gospel. And so 377 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,880 Speaker 2: what we did is we partnered with some believers from 378 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:46,479 Speaker 2: the Moong tribe and they have access to places that 379 00:19:46,560 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 2: even other believers in Vietnam don't have because they're from 380 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,119 Speaker 2: a tribe themselves, and they can go places and not 381 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:55,280 Speaker 2: be too suspicious. And so they were able to take 382 00:19:55,280 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 2: the gospel to these last people groups who. 383 00:19:57,119 --> 00:19:57,600 Speaker 4: Had never heard. 384 00:19:57,600 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 2: And this is what we do all over the world. 385 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 2: We look for those places where God is moving, that 386 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,920 Speaker 2: are nearest to the places that need to be reached, 387 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 2: and we come alongside and we ask one question, how 388 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:09,119 Speaker 2: can we help. We don't tell them what to do, 389 00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 2: We don't tell them how to do it. We come 390 00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,920 Speaker 2: in there to serve, and we look for what God 391 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,480 Speaker 2: is already doing all over the world. We find this 392 00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:18,640 Speaker 2: God is implanted a vision in the hearts of believers 393 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:21,199 Speaker 2: who are near us to these frontiers with a passion 394 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,200 Speaker 2: to go there with the gospel. They don't have a 395 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,560 Speaker 2: lot to work with, they might not have a motorcycle 396 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 2: to get there, they might not have everything that they 397 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,600 Speaker 2: need to live there. But we come alongside, we help 398 00:20:30,640 --> 00:20:33,360 Speaker 2: them so that they can maintain presence in those places. 399 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,200 Speaker 5: And I think oftentimes, you know, they can't. These missionaries 400 00:20:38,240 --> 00:20:41,679 Speaker 5: can't just walk up to someone and start talking about Jesus. 401 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 5: Maybe in some contexts, but it sounds like in areas 402 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 5: where you know it's restrictive and maybe the dominant religion 403 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:54,959 Speaker 5: is not favorable toward Christianity, it sounds like, you know, 404 00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,760 Speaker 5: are there ways that they can begin to build relationships 405 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 5: with people, things that they can do. I'm just curious 406 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:04,200 Speaker 5: of the methodology there. 407 00:21:04,800 --> 00:21:05,640 Speaker 4: That's absolutely right. 408 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:08,159 Speaker 2: And almost all of these places you can't just begin 409 00:21:08,840 --> 00:21:12,360 Speaker 2: by holding open ear air crusades for the gospel, right, 410 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 2: you have to go in and start loving people and 411 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:17,239 Speaker 2: let them see the love of Christ before you can 412 00:21:17,280 --> 00:21:19,679 Speaker 2: proclaim the truth of Christ to them. So in almost 413 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,119 Speaker 2: every area where we partner, we find that this is 414 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 2: the case. They need to establish presents in these places. 415 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 2: And oftentimes those places where they're trying to go are 416 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,480 Speaker 2: even hostile to the gospel, they're hostile to Christian presence. 417 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,040 Speaker 2: So we help them do things like start a school 418 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,119 Speaker 2: in Chad. For example, we just heard a great report 419 00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:43,560 Speaker 2: today about how God is using schools that our donors 420 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,919 Speaker 2: help to fund in northern Chad and as a result 421 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,440 Speaker 2: of that, many many people are hearing the gospel. These 422 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:52,920 Speaker 2: are predominantly Muslim areas. But here's the amazing thing. They 423 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 2: want to send their kids to Christian schools. So when 424 00:21:55,520 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 2: we learn this, we said, hey, we'll help you start schools, 425 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 2: and so we help them start forcing schools in northern 426 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,800 Speaker 2: Chad that are doing really well. And this is another 427 00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 2: great example of how missionaries can become sustainable because the 428 00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 2: Muslims will actually pay for their kids to go to 429 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 2: these schools. So once you build the school and you 430 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,320 Speaker 2: get it up and running, it can actually support a 431 00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:15,800 Speaker 2: missionary worker. And you might ask, okay, well why do 432 00:22:15,840 --> 00:22:18,399 Speaker 2: they want that? Well, think about this, all throughout the 433 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 2: Muslim world, kids only have access to Madrasas. This is 434 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,680 Speaker 2: Muslim education where all they do is memorize the Koran 435 00:22:25,760 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 2: all day long in a language that they don't know. 436 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:31,439 Speaker 2: They have no idea what they're memorizing. Think about that, 437 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 2: and so parents look at that and they're like, we 438 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,600 Speaker 2: need better for our kids. And so they actually are 439 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 2: welcoming and asking for Christians to come in and start 440 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 2: schools in their community. Well guess what these buildings now 441 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:44,720 Speaker 2: can serve as places for Bible study for worship, and 442 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 2: that's exactly what's happening. 443 00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 3: Amazing. 444 00:22:48,320 --> 00:22:53,240 Speaker 5: Wow, that's very cool. So, as there clearly are very 445 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:58,399 Speaker 5: many obstacles and restrictions and challenges for these indigenous missionaries, 446 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 5: what would you say is like the top challenger obstacle 447 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 5: that they face. 448 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:04,119 Speaker 4: That's a great question. 449 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 2: I mean, I suppose if we were to ask them, 450 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,600 Speaker 2: you know, they might give us different answers about what 451 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,960 Speaker 2: their top thing is. Because it might vary from place 452 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,199 Speaker 2: to place. You know, in some places, like just to 453 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:18,520 Speaker 2: talk about northern Chad for example, one of their challenges 454 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:22,359 Speaker 2: just getting around. It's a very inhospitable desert, right, and 455 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:25,800 Speaker 2: so we've helped them with transportation. I went there, I 456 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,479 Speaker 2: visited some of these places, and it is intense, I 457 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:32,840 Speaker 2: mean just to live and survive in these places. And 458 00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 2: so missionaries that are working in these places they first 459 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 2: have to figure that out, how do I live and 460 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 2: survive in this place? Because it is dangerous and it's difficult. 461 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,720 Speaker 2: So they face challenges that you and I can't even 462 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,960 Speaker 2: begin to imagine, things like disease. Just staying alive in 463 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 2: these places is not easy for missionaries. So that's a 464 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 2: big thing. I think the physical part of it. Someone 465 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:55,240 Speaker 2: did a study and they said, why are they unreached? 466 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:55,800 Speaker 4: Unreached? 467 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,160 Speaker 2: Why are their frontiers of the gospel? And the conclusion 468 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,560 Speaker 2: that they came to is that these places are unreached 469 00:24:01,760 --> 00:24:04,840 Speaker 2: because nobody wants to go there, and nobody wants to 470 00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,439 Speaker 2: go there because it's just difficult to survive and to 471 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 2: live in these places. So these are places where there's 472 00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,800 Speaker 2: war zones, these are places where the terrain is difficult. 473 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:16,320 Speaker 2: Think of Tibet high mountains. These are the Amazon Rainforest. 474 00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,440 Speaker 2: So just the physical part of it is a big 475 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 2: challenge for missionaris. The good thing is they're willing to 476 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 2: do that. You and I would die within a week 477 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 2: in some of these places, right in a day, but 478 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,560 Speaker 2: they're willing to do it. And it's not easy even 479 00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 2: for them, all right, it's impossible for us, but it's 480 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 2: not easy for anybody. And so just that very human 481 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 2: physical part is a big challenge. Second part of it 482 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:41,600 Speaker 2: is the aspect of persecution. So they face restrictions in China, 483 00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,840 Speaker 2: they face constant surveillance. In the southern part of China, 484 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,879 Speaker 2: where you find most of the unreached people groups, they 485 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 2: have the most intense surveillance of the activity of Christians 486 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,359 Speaker 2: and minority people groups, and so this is a challenge. 487 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 2: So there are multiple things that they face, but I 488 00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 2: think those two are big ones, just the physical challenge 489 00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:02,920 Speaker 2: and also the persecution. 490 00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,199 Speaker 5: So for our listeners in the West, who who might 491 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:12,879 Speaker 5: feel very far removed from an unreached people group in 492 00:25:12,960 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 5: a remote desert or jungle, what can they do to help? 493 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,560 Speaker 2: The first thing is learn how to pray, And I 494 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 2: say learn how to pray because you and I really 495 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,800 Speaker 2: don't know how to pray for people in these context 496 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:28,959 Speaker 2: as we've never been in that context. And that's one 497 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 2: of the reasons God raised up Christian Aid. Get on 498 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 2: our prayer Line mailing list. This is a daily education tool. 499 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 2: And someone said, you know, whatever you want to impact 500 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,159 Speaker 2: your life, do it daily. And so this is what 501 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 2: I tell people. If you want to learn and you 502 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:47,600 Speaker 2: want to become engaged with the persecuted church and indigenous ministries, 503 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:49,800 Speaker 2: get on our prayer line mailing list. You're going to 504 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 2: learn every day. And then we have something called Mission Insider. 505 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 2: This is fantastic for educating your people your church. Get 506 00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:59,200 Speaker 2: on our mission Mission Insider mailings. It is fantastic. You're 507 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 2: going to learn about what happening on the frontlines regularly. 508 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:05,240 Speaker 2: And here's the other thing that I would say is 509 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:09,240 Speaker 2: start investing in something simple and something small. Go to 510 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,159 Speaker 2: our website, look at opportunities for giving and say, you 511 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:15,200 Speaker 2: know what, I want to get some Bibles to China 512 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,440 Speaker 2: this year. Take on a project, do it with your church, 513 00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 2: do it with your family. Take on something small and 514 00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:23,160 Speaker 2: take ownership of a part of the world and say 515 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:25,040 Speaker 2: I'm going to start praying into this. I'm going to 516 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:27,600 Speaker 2: start learning about China. I'm going to start learning about 517 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:29,800 Speaker 2: the Middle East, bring your whole family into it, bring 518 00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:32,320 Speaker 2: your Sunday school group into it, and just own that 519 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:34,720 Speaker 2: part of the world and start investing through prayer and giving. 520 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 3: All right, well, thank you for our listeners. If you 521 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 3: want to sign up for Prayer Line or Missions Insider, 522 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 3: you can do that on our website. And if you 523 00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,120 Speaker 3: want to give, I can't think of a better thing 524 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 3: to invest in, just as a Christian, in getting the 525 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:56,119 Speaker 3: Gospel to these last people groups. So thank you David, 526 00:26:56,160 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 3: and thank you to our listeners. And again you can 527 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,720 Speaker 3: learn more at our web site, christian Aid dot org 528 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:04,359 Speaker 3: and we will see you next time. 529 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:17,960 Speaker 4: Thanks guys, you will be like. 530 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 5: God human unity. God was severed and through it all, 531 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:26,119 Speaker 5: God's promise remain true. 532 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:27,520 Speaker 4: Follow me. 533 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,119 Speaker 1: And I will make you great. 534 00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:35,879 Speaker 4: This is the Chosen People. 535 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:42,280 Speaker 5: Listen to the Chosen People at the Chosen People dot com. 536 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 5: That's the Chosen People dot com.