IT’S A GOD THING!!!
IT’S A GOD THING! We had a lengthy meeting with 4 pastors in Mali who are from 4 DIFFERENT UNENGAGED PEOPLE GROUPS! They have been praying for God to help them train and send Mali people to Burkina Faso to reach their people. North Point will partner with them to do just that. We need more churches to partner with us to do more than just support missions. We need you to get DIRECTLY involved in changing history forever – reached a unreached, unengaged people group. Read Revelation 7:9!
We will probably be starting with an unengaged people group called the Senufo. They live mainly in Mali, Burkina Faso, and the Ivory Coast. We know that they can reach their people better than we can. We discussed a partnership between their local churches in Mali and North Point to go after them. Soon they will send survey teams down into the Senufo people to see where each village is located. We will give them a GPS so they can log in the exact coordinates to the location of each village.
The churches in Mali will send out young men as missionaries from their church to Burkina Faso and the Ivory Coast to evangelize, start a church, and disciple the believers. Once a man rises up to pastor that church, he will be trained and the missionary will turn the church over to him. The Mali missionary will go on to the next village and begin the same process.
Over 80% of the people we will be reaching are illiterate. The Senufo people do have a New Testament translated into their language but there are two problems: not many copies available and they can’t read them. We will be raising money for a device that has their New Testament recorded on it for them to listen to. It can run off batteries, electricity, solar panel, or you can turn a crank. What an awesome tool so EVERYONE can hear.
Before they even knew we what coming to Mali they had already begun to see what they could do about reaching these groups. They have a FIRST EVER Mission’s Conference set up for next week. Many of their churches had decided to come together to pray and preach about missions with the hope that some would surrender to go. Here we come in today with the same vision and God was already working behind the scenes. This is exciting!
Pray about some much needed funds for the recorded Bible project and a few others we are praying about. We serve a BIG GOD and we are doing this for HIM!
