Through your gifts, we have started a partnership with a group of Baptist churches in an eastern European country populated with the ‘G’ people, a minority people group in Central Asia.

Even though there are many active and healthy ‘G’ churches in Europe, they don’t have much experience sending their own missionaries cross-culturally or long-term. However, a desire to do so is growing, and our IMB teams in Central Asia are ready to receive them!

We are using your gifts to come alongside ‘G’ churches in Europe to help them mobilize and send their people to Central Asia. These new missionaries will join our IMB teams to reach other similar language groups. Your gifts cover costs for efforts like vision-casting, strategic planning, and training ‘G’ missionaries to share the gospel effectively.

Because the ‘G’ people’s language and culture are comparable to those of many other Central Asian groups, they can more easily connect with other unreached people groups. Thank you for your partnership through prayer and giving, which empowers this important work.

Be in prayer for our new ‘G’ partner missionaries as they arrive from Eastern Europe to Central Asia! We thank God for your support of our Mobilizing the Nations to Reach Central Asians team!

As borders reopened after the pandemic, so have opportunities for mobilization across Central Asia. Cross-cultural workers from many different countries, including Africa and South America, have explored opportunities to work with unreached Central Asian peoples, and several joined with established long-term teams on the ground.

Momentum Building
We see a growing sense of calling among young Central Asian churches to send missionaries as part of the Great Commission. In January, we hosted a training for potential cross-cultural workers from a former Soviet country. This group has asked for another training at the end of the year.

Although there is great economic and political turbulence in their country, we are confident that God will use this turmoil to further the work of sharing the gospel across borders and cultures.
Vision Conference
The most exciting current development is our team’s work with Central Asian partners to create a structure for sending and supporting cross-cultural workers from the “stan” countries. Our first step is a vision conference in October where we will welcome a group of pastors and other ministers who are champions of missions in their countries. During the conference, we hope to identify several leaders to serve as the core for the sending structure. A follow-up spring meeting will gather those leaders to plan the next steps.

We also hope to connect potential workers with specific need across Central Asia and organize vision trips to those locations. Other steps include regional training meetings, pastor groups, and internship opportunities for aspiring cross-cultural workers.

Prayer Requests

• Please pray that the political and economic instability in the region would lead to greater openness to the gospel.
• Pray for the October missions conference—
  – that the participants would be able to freely travel to the location
  – that they would catch a vision for cross-cultural ministry
  – that they would take the next steps in pursuing the missions task.
• Pray that potential workers will receive clear direction through vision trips to areas of need.
• Pray for wisdom in setting up a sending structure for Central Asian missionaries.

Thank you for partnering with us in mobilizing the nations to reach Central Asians for Christ. As we strive to bring the gospel to every corner of the region, we see God glorified and lifted up (Is. 2:2-3).