Reaching the Unreached
Map Identifying People Groups of Oaxaca, painted on a wall at our Oaxaca Mission
In 1997, Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Organization published a guide called "Oaxaca, Land of Intrigue - 30 Days of Prayer" to intercede for the Indian groups of Oaxaca, Mexico. With the help of Bob Sundberg (Army of the Lord Ministry) who traveled for 10 years in the mountains of Oaxaca discovering and documenting the tribes and languages, they compiled detailed information about the many different people groups and languages in the state of Oaxaca - the location of the greatest concentration of unreached ethnic groups in all of the Americas.
Map Identifying People Groups of Oaxaca, painted on a wall at our Oaxaca Mission
In 1997, Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Organization published a guide called "Oaxaca, Land of Intrigue - 30 Days of Prayer" to intercede for the Indian groups of Oaxaca, Mexico. With the help of Bob Sundberg (Army of the Lord Ministry) who traveled for 10 years in the mountains of Oaxaca discovering and documenting the tribes and languages, they compiled detailed information about the many different people groups and languages in the state of Oaxaca - the location of the greatest concentration of unreached ethnic groups in all of the Americas.
In 1997, Youth With A Mission (YWAM) Organization published a guide called "Oaxaca, Land of Intrigue - 30 Days of Prayer" to intercede for the Indian groups of Oaxaca, Mexico. With the help of Bob Sundberg (Army of the Lord Ministry) who traveled for 10 years in the mountains of Oaxaca discovering and documenting the tribes and languages, they compiled detailed information about the many different people groups and languages in the state of Oaxaca - the location of the greatest concentration of unreached ethnic groups in all of the Americas. |
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What is meant by an "unreached people group?" The following information is from the YWAM Oaxaca site:
VISION: REACHING THE UNREACHED AND THE WORLD
The definition of an unreached people group is, "A people group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize their own people without requiring outside (cross-cultural) assistance."
A "reached" people is, therefore, a people group that has a strong, indigenous church planting movement established that is of sufficient size and strength to evangelize the rest of the group with no (or little) outside help.
OAXACA: THE CURRENT SITUATION
Oaxaca, a state in the southern part of Mexico, is home to 155 people groups, each of which has its own distinct language. This is over half of all the ethnic peoples in Mexico! 60 of these groups are unreached - 13 of which do not have any church or Christian meeting of any kind. some have no known believers. The remaining have some form of organized church, but for various reasons (demonic oppression, lack of vision, resources, freedom, etc.) those Christians are not evangelizing their own people group.
THE GOAL: To see each of these 60 indigenous groups being reached.
VISION: REACHING THE UNREACHED AND THE WORLD
The definition of an unreached people group is, "A people group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize their own people without requiring outside (cross-cultural) assistance."
A "reached" people is, therefore, a people group that has a strong, indigenous church planting movement established that is of sufficient size and strength to evangelize the rest of the group with no (or little) outside help.
OAXACA: THE CURRENT SITUATION
Oaxaca, a state in the southern part of Mexico, is home to 155 people groups, each of which has its own distinct language. This is over half of all the ethnic peoples in Mexico! 60 of these groups are unreached - 13 of which do not have any church or Christian meeting of any kind. some have no known believers. The remaining have some form of organized church, but for various reasons (demonic oppression, lack of vision, resources, freedom, etc.) those Christians are not evangelizing their own people group.
THE GOAL: To see each of these 60 indigenous groups being reached.
