Ministry Leaders Develop Strategies to Reach Unreached People Groups Around the World

AIMS News: Posted 5/1/2004

In March, 47 ministry leaders, pastors and students participated in the annual AIMS' Unreached Peoples Consultation at Regent University in Virginia Beach. During the week, partnerships and networks formed focusing on several key areas: Africa, China, Indonesia, and India. By the end of the consultation, everyone who participated unanimously pre-registered for next year's consultation.

Each year, AIMS offers the opportunity for leaders and workers from various organizations to meet and network together with other ministry leaders working around the world. Through strategy sessions, these leaders were able to brainstorm and develop strategies pertaining to their area of influence. As a result, participants in each of the sessions have developed solid goals for the upcoming year.

During the Africa strategy sessions, participants planned to reach the unreached through developing a clean water network, businesses, and ministry to political leaders of each country. Leaders of each strategy agreed to schedule a planning meeting within the next six months to organize a consultation within the next year.

Each person participating in the strategy session on China agreed to form a prayer group to specifically pray for Chinaís 450 unreached people groups. Leaders soon discovered that each personís strength met another personís need within the group. They decided to form a network to communicate these specific ministry needs and strengths throughout the next year.

One participant admitted that the consultation was not what she had expected. "If I had known what this consultation was about, I probably would not have registered," she said. "However, now that I've had this experience, I am excited about what is coming next."

Leaders from the International Pentecostal Holiness Church, Evangel Bible Translators, TellAsia, the Caleb Project and Fuel International all participated in the consultation and pre-registered for the 2005 event. They all believe that the strategies developed at this consultation will bear much fruit for the kingdom of God throughout the rest of the year and plan to give a full report at the next Unreached Peoples Consultation scheduled for March 2005.

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