Partner with us to strengthen the work among unengaged, unreached Muslim peoples living in a remote mountain region of Central Asia.
Nearly 10 million Muslims from over forty ethnolinguistic people groups live in a remote and isolated region of Central Asia where Islam is on the rise. Young men are attracted to the false promise of purpose that Islam offers. A millennia-long resistance to outside influence further hardens locals to the gospel. Despite these challenges, gospel seeds have taken root among the Muslim Mountain Minorities (MMM) people groups. A smattering of believers meets in fledgling churches led by local believers. They reach out to their neighbors and relatives, offering hope and salvation in Christ.
Our team’s contribution to the work is three-fold.
• We invest in the local, national leaders, encouraging them via family retreats and trainings about biblical marriage and parenting. We also invest in them theologically and methodologically, helping them work through the meaning of biblical faithfulness in a challenging context.
• We recruit, train, and help send workers to this harvest field from people groups from similar cultures who live in the region. We encourage and empower these believers to plant healthy churches among the Muslim Mountain Minority peoples.
• We help translate the Scriptures into the minority group languages of the region.
Your gifts and partnership will help us hold more frequent and effective retreats and trainings for local leaders and enable us to continue equipping and helping send near-culture peoples as church planters. Join us today in this critical work among the Muslim Mountain Minorities!
Gifts toward specific efforts show us what you are excited about. Occasionally, we may redeploy gifts as we follow God's leading with urgent opportunities or changing international contexts. Any gifts received beyond the goal go toward a similar project or our team support.
Training Central Asian Goers
Your gift will support trainings throughout Central Asia to encourage healthy church development and healthy sending of workers from near-culture networks. We coach and empower these sending networks in their local regions around the MMM peoples so that they can send their most prepared workers to the unreached region.
Vision Trips for National Workers
We have a partnership with indigenous leaders among the MMM peoples that allows them to host prospective near-culture workers who want to take a vision trip to the region. Your gift will help the MMM peoples host these potential Christian workers as they come ‘in view of a call.’
Family Retreat for National Leaders
We are bringing national leaders out of the country twice a year to a secure location for retreats/trainings to encourage them personally and build them up in the work. Your gift will cover travel costs and help us host the events.
Bible Translation Projects
We are working with a partner organization to translate Scripture portions into the diverse native languages of the MMM region. Your gift will support these translation efforts.
Reaching Central Asian Students
We are working with the many students who come to the capital to study, providing a community for them while they are away from home. Your gift will help us host English speaking nights, book clubs, and other events, as well Bible studies for those interested in learning more about the good news. We are also hosting short-term college teams to reach local students.
Expanding the Gospel’s Reach
Our work results in a lot of travel as we seek to share the gospel, disciple new believers, nurture churches, and develop leaders. Your gift helps us get to the people who most need the gospel and discipleship. It also enables us to attend trainings so we can grow in the missionary task ourselves by sharpening personal skills, biblical knowledge, and application.
Victor* is a church planter and key Christian leader in a strategic city in a predominantly Muslim area, an area inaccessible to Americans.
But Victor has extensive connections throughout the region with like-minded churches, and his potential for recruiting other church planters is enormous.
Because of your generosity to this ministry, we have been training and strategizing with Victor, working to develop church-centered, cross-cultural outreach among the Muslims where he lives.
He is eager to learn and teachable. We meet with him online regularly for coaching and plan to train his entire church planting team this fall.
Thank you for equipping believers like Victor to bring the gospel to some of the least-reached areas in Central Asia.
Please join us in prayer:
Your sacrificial gifts and faithful prayers are critical in this ministry. Thank you for your partnership in the gospel!
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The goal represents the cost of our team’s ministry activities for this calendar year. The Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (LMCO) fully fund our living expenses. The goal amount resets every January 1st. All gifts completed through this form are directed to our team’s ministry strategy.
100% of all gifts received are used overseas as we reach the unreached with the gospel together. Click here to learn how this is made possible through the Cooperative Program.
Giving to one of our specific team efforts allows us to know what you are excited to see God complete within our ministry. Occasionally, we may need to redeploy gifts within our team strategy as urgent opportunities arise, as we do our best to follow God's leading, or adjust to changing international contexts. Any gifts received beyond the posted goal go toward a similar project or our team support.
100% of all gifts received are used overseas as we reach the unreached with the gospel together. Click here to learn how this is made possible through the Cooperative Program.
Our living expenses are fully provided by generous churches and individuals participating in the Cooperative Program and Lottie Moon Christmas Offering® (LMCO). These gifts enable us to remain on mission without interruption. Your support is a partnership with these churches, providing for us and our colleagues through LMCO. Our team receives recognition when partners give below to make our presence here possible.
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