This last week has made it very real that I am in fact packing up my bags and redefining the meaning of home in a matter of months. This week we trained for hours and hours for this next season I've eagerly been anticpating for the last year.
My journey with GoCorps began about a little under a year ago when I was acepted into a post grad program at my university that mobilizes students to specifically unreached countries around the world. I'm not sure if as you're reading this you found youself wondering- unreached what does that mean??
Unreached people, to be concise, are people who don't have access to the gospel. This means that these people have never even heard the name of Jesus, this can happen because they don't have a Bible, a church, or any other beleivers around them. Sometimes people remain in this unreached category because they are in geographic locations that are difficult to reach or because the time required to lead them to Christ is longer than a short term trip can accomplish. How crazy is that? Dependent on where you are born you automatically more likely to have the gospel shared with you, and these people, for no other reason than where they are born, don't get to have the same hope you and I both get to rejoice in. The image below shows where these people are located in the "10/40 Window," this refers to the gernal locations of these people groups.
The world's population is 7.6 billion people, of this 3.1 billion have never heard the gospel! Hearing this statistic made me ask a lot of questions. Why is there such a thing as unreached people groups? Where are missionaries going, if not to nations with unreached people? And lastly, should I go? Through my four years at college God revealed to me that he was sending me to partner with His people in the 10/40 window and share His plan for them.