{"id":72,"date":"2010-03-29T17:34:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jody-crain\/?p=72"},"modified":"2010-03-29T17:34:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T21:34:19","slug":"how-do-you-look-for-an-unreached-people-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jody-crain\/2010\/03\/29\/how-do-you-look-for-an-unreached-people-group\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Look for an Unreached People Group?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Looking around the world to the areas where the Gospel has not yet gone, reminds me of a nine island survey in the Philippines that a coworker and I did a while back. This trip really wasn’t work, it was more like a tropical isles vacation…we’ll, maybe not quite.<\/p>\n

We began with an hour jet flight to from Manila to the capital city of Palawan. Climbed on motorcycles for 4 days,<\/p>\n

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Then we took another flight on a 19 ‘seater’ inter-island plane to Cuyo Island,<\/p>\n

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Next we transferred our packs onto an 8 hp diesel engine ‘pumpboat’ (which was our ride for the next 7 days).<\/p>\n

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And then, made a two hour trip to the first island.<\/p>\n

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Incredible beautiful beaches and tropical vegetation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Everyday we piled into this boat and traveled to one small island after another. What were we looking for? People who are part of the Agutaynen ethnic group.<\/p>\n

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Also, the island leaders — Barrio Captains, and their counsel members to find out:<\/p>\n

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How many people lived there? (From 300 to 4,000 people, totaling over 10,000 in all.) What language do they speak? (85% speak Agutaynen.)<\/p>\n

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Is the Word of God being taught? (Only 1 island had someone teaching the Word.) What are their needs? (Clean drinking water, health centers, 1 room school building, etc.) Can we build an airstrip on this island? (Some, yes. Some, no.)<\/p>\n

Would they like for NTM to send missionaries to live with them? (Yes, every island!) So what are we waiting for? Workers!!!<\/p>\n

There was no plane from Cuyo back to Puerto, so sailed for 17 hours on a small ship with 230 other passengers. <\/p>\n

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Praise the Lord for: giving us grace with the people we met, motorcycles, boats, planes for each leg of the trip, safety in all our travels, giving us a glimpse of what He is wanting to do among this people group. Pray for the Lord to:<\/p>\n

* Raise up a church planting team of 3 families (2 Bible teachers and 1 community developer) to reach the Agutaynen people on these 9 islands.
\n * Provide the resources for helping the villages\/islands with their physical needs to facilitate building relationships with the people.
\n * Give wisdom in how to address the cultural issues in conflict with the Gospel among the Agutaynen.<\/p>\n

Thank you for your faithful partnership in seeing the unreached ethnic groups of the Philippines and Asia hear the Gospel of grace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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