National Missionaries are the believers already living amongst the Most Unreached ...
With few or no cultural barriers to overcome, national missionaries can readily share the Gospel with those who have never heard. Although they face many difficult obstacles as they take the message from village to village, they still have an enormous advantage over their coworkers from North America and other non-Asian lands.
Today, over 85 percent of Asian countries do not allow western missionaries to come and freely share the Gospel and establish fellowships. Nationals don't need a visa.
In the eyes of the people, national missionaries do not represent a foreign country or a strange religion. They already know the language or can easily learn a local dialect.
A national missionary can be sent out at a fraction of the cost of a Western missionary. In fact, the average cost is only £960 to £1440 per year compared to over £20,000 to £40,000 per year for a foreign missionary.
The possibility of reaching Asia's multitudes through national missionaries in our generation is very real as thousands are being trained to establish fellowships across Asia!
With National Missionaries we can reach the Most Unreached!
Today the reality is that 97 percent of the world's unreached lives in the 10/40 Window, a rectangular shaped area on our globe extending from West Africa to East Asia, from 10 degrees north to 40 degrees north of the equator. In this part of the world, millions live with little or no chance of ever hearing the Gospel. The Window also encompasses the majority of the world's Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists.
The darkest of all areas within the 10/40 Window is Asia. Over 80,000 die every day in Asian countries without knowing about the love of Jesus Christ. 500,000 villages in South Asia alone have never heard the Gospel.
97 percent of the world's unreached
Although 97% of the world's unreached lives in the 10/40 window, less than 0.1% of our total resources as the Church in the West are being sent to help share the Good News. Truly there is a staggering amount of work to do. However, with national missionaries we can reach them!
Thousands of national workers ...
Thousands of national workers are being trained and sent to the mission fields of Asia every year through Gospel for Asia. But many more are needed if the millions in these countries are to hear the Gospel in our lifetime.
To date over 50 Bible colleges have been established in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and at the Bhutan border. Currently, around 6,000 young men and women are currently receiving training.
The quality of GFA students is incredible. Over 98 percent of our graduates minister in places where the Gospel has never before been shared. Frequently, our graduates will establish a new fellowship within their first year on the field.
This incredible fruit from national missions work is being reproduced across Asia!
10 fellowships every day
On average, our missionaries establish over 10 fellowships every day in Asia among unreached villages and people groups. But none of this has come easily. Our national missionaries are paying a high price of suffering, hardship and intense persecution to see fellowships established.
The fellowships established in each culture are truly indigenous in character, self-governing, self-propagating and, as soon as possible, self-supporting.
Thousands of national brothers and sisters are waiting to be sent. They just need your help!
