Last Blog for 2010

Dear Friends,



So we ask the time worn question: "Where did this year go?"



THE JONATHAN PROJECT has been perking right along.

• As of this writing we are closing in on our goal of seeing 5,000 churches planted during this year among the least reached people groups on the planet.


• There were International training sessions of JONATHANS.


• We held our first American training session this past August in America.


• We have partnered with a number of other organizations all committed to seeing that the Gospel is carried to the least reached people groups.


• If I told you that trained JONATHANS are headed into the Afghanistan/Pakistan border and are in refugee camps in the West Bank for example, and that we have a very solid invitation to train in the middle east, you would begin to get the idea of what we are trying to do in preaching the Gospel to the least reached people groups.


• We are organizing to accomplish these goals and objectives so we have people moving and new assignments handed out. (I am being rather clandestine in my speech as we do not want to jeapordize any of our workers unnecessarily!)


• We have started a new support team for all of these efforts called HEART AND SOUL90. This entire concept will be rolling out over the next few weeks.

All in all it has been a busy year and one we see as a building block for even further expansion of the preaching and teaching of the Gospel to the least reached people groups on the planet.

Let me remind you that when we began this ministry God gave us a goal of 100,000 churches among least reached people groups within a five year period. As the 5,000+ started this year explode exponentially the goal the Lord has given us is well within our reach...as long as it all is confirmed as being in HIS reach as well!

We pray a prosperous and incredibly wonderful 2011 as together we work in the Lord's Vineyard!

Graydon and Judy Jessup

graydon.jessup@gmail.com

714.488.7922

Finishing the Task

Dear Friends,

I wrote about Finishing the Task in my last blog. What an event it was. Convened by Paul Eshleman, with Campus Crusade, I was able to join in with about 38 other men and women who are all committed to the task of carrying the Gospel to the least reached people groups on the planet. The information and the insights were truly amazing. Here are just two examples:

• A recording of the Jesus Film can be made in the heart language of an unreached people group, even though that particular people group does not have a written language!
• The nation with the most people groups, and the most unengaged, unreached people groups is India! (India has 1,132 distinct people groups and 89 are left who have never heard the Gospel of Jesus Christ.)

There are three agencies who keep comprehensive global people group lists.

• World Christian Database/WCD www.worldchristiandatabase.org/wcd/
• IMB/CPPI http://www.peoplegroups.org
• Joshua Project/JP http://www.joshuaproject.net

You can click on to any one of these web sites and see what we are seeing- lists of least reached people groups around the globe. Between the three you can easily gain a world wide perspective of what is happening within the various people groups. Once you see the trends you can begin to plan strategically to carry the Gospel to all peoplle who have such great needs...in Christ Jesus!

We live in exciting times. This is not the time to hide under a rock. Rather this is the day and hour that God has given us to stand up and be counted for him.

Just so you know, one of the JONATHANS has had tremendous impact in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank and another JONATHAN couple, along with their 10 month old daughter, are leaving for Afghanistan and the Punjab people. The amazing "exploits" of these modern day Apostle Paul's can be told over and again. God is at work...big time!

We pray an Acts 4:24-31 "holy boldness" on all JONATHANS as well as on all who are carrying the Gospel to the least reached people groups among us...right now!

Judy and I wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And though we do not know what 2011 holds in store for any of us, we do know the Lord Jesus Christ...and ultimately He is the only ONE we need to not only know, but with whom we also need personal relationship.

Prayers and blessings,

Graydon and Judy Jessup

graydon.jessup@gmail.com

714.488.7922

BIG Week

Dear Friends,

This is a BIG week for THE JONATHAN PROJECT!

Last spring I had been invited to attend a meeting called, FINISHING THE TASK which would be held December 8/9, 2010. The meeting is being convened by Paul Eshleman who has been with Campus Crusade all of his career. He is the developer and marketing strategist for THE JESUS FILM, the most watched film in the history of the planet! Just a few years ago he handed the responsibilities of THE JESUS FILM over to others and he has dedicated the rest of his life to getting the Gospel out to the least reached people groups. The result: FINISHING THE TASK.

About 30-40 individuals and mission agencies who have the same passion- to get the Gospel out to the least reached people groups- will meet to do three things:

• Review what God has done this past year
• Where are we right now, today?
• What do we hope to accomplish in the future?

I am looking forward to these two intense days for a number of reasons. First and foremost I will have a front row seat for what is happening around the world with the least reached people groups. Second, I will be able to better position THE JONATHAN PROJECT and our new ministry HEART AND SOUL90 to fit in to what God is doing with everyone else! And finally we all will leave with some specific marching orders for 2011. Pretty exciting I would say!

Blessings,

Graydon and Judy Jessup

graydon.jessup@gmail.com

714.488.7922