How to Reach...

Imagine a map of the world, beautifully enameled on ceramic. Let's paint a green dot wherever there is already a church or at least a mission station: there are green dots in almost every country in the world. Now lift the ceramic map high above your head, and SHATTER it onto the floor. Fragments fly everywhere, but very few of them have green dots (indicating existing churches or missions).

 
God shattered the world that way back in Gen.11 where it is recorded, "the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth."  (Genesis 11:9)

Suddenly, we see a more realistic picture of world evangelization. Although almost every country has a church, every society certainly does not have a church or missionary yet. Notice, for example, India is in over 3000 scattered fragments and only a few fragments have churches.

And, look! The fragments of India are scattered so far and wide, that those with a church in them have little chance of easily reaching those without a church. In many cases, because of caste prejudices, the "national Christians" in India are the least likely to be able to reach other Indians.

India Progress

Progress Level		Peoples	% of Peoples	Population	% of Population
	Level 1 - Unreached / Least-Reached	2218	87.0 %	1,092,519,000	90.8 %
	Level 2 - Nominal / Formative Church	102	4.0 %	50,556,000	4.2 %
	Level 3 - Established / Significant Church	229	9.0 %	60,424,000	5.0 %
Totals		2,549		1,203,498,000

Courtesy of the Joshua Project

The same is true of the Muslim world, the Chinese, and the list goes on. In fact, worldwide there are more than 16,000 such separated cultures with no church or mission effort. These cultures make up half of mankind. So there's the challenge for the evangelical movement: What will it take to focus our attention on the remaining 16,000 or so cultures with no effective church or mission work yet?

Santosh

Here at AIM important steps are being taken:

1. Mobilize evangelical students and adults to commit their lives now in giving or going to the last frontiers.

2. Mobilize churches to look beyond their doors and catch the vision of penetrating the last frontiers.

Both these steps involve you in spreading the vision to all your friends.

Please help us to reach the least and the lost with the gospel of Jesus Christ by joining us on a Mission Trip or by Donating Here now.

  

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Prayer Requests   

Pray for our India ministry partners as together we seek to save the least and the lost by sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Pray for more contributors to commit to supporting the children at AIM sponsored children’s homes in India.

Pray for the 60 churches and their pastors in Tenali and the surrounding villages, and also for their families.