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
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