Saturday, December 18, 2010

Big Country Bells

Thirteen years ago, Second formally adopted an unreached people group we cryptically call the Bells. They live in what we call the big country.


On Friday I received an update from a member of our church who attended on our behalf the international conference on the Bells. It met in a large Asian city,


When we began our work thirteen years ago, there were less than ten known Bell believers. Now there are several hundred. This is good news. I am grateful. And yet the task remains daunting.


They are hard to reach. Trips to them are long, expensive, and arduous. None of us speak the Bell language. None of them speak English.


We made a twenty year commitment to work with the Bells. Another church made a 25 to 50 year commitment. We have seven years to go. "Oh God, please send laborers into the harvest. There is yet much to do."


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