A Four Year Plan

There are over 260 people groups in our area. Most of them have never heard of Jesus. But partnered with the underground Church, we can spread the good news of Jesus Christ to these people. How? By setting up training centers right where they are.

These training centers facilitate evangelism, discipleship and church planting. It is a time proven strategy that works among unreached people groups. We have seen whole people groups reached in 4 years.

Below is our comprehensive four year plan to reach unreached tribes. Each phase happens in one year. Here they are:

Phase 1: Initial outreach

In the first phase, we establish a discipleship training center near the target people group. We work with our local co-workers as they manage the training center for four years. For the initial evangelistic outreach, we travel to the target area with twenty local evangelists, sharing the gospel to nearby villages. We gather as many tribal people as we can and take them back to the training center for follow-up.

The new believers learn about a God they have never heard of before, and we see lives changed. Then we send the new tribal believers back to their villages to share what they have learned with friends and family.

The local co-workers make three to four follow-up visits per month to the new believer’s village. During the first year, new converts come to the training center for four trainings. We focus on the basics of Christian principles, using the Good News Series and School of Workers Curriculum. A house church is then established on a village level, and believers are encouraged to meet weekly.

Phase 2: Leadership development

In the second year of our new church plant among unreached peoples, we make every effort to develop a leadership team of five tribal leaders in each home to manage and care for new churches and new believers. We continue training new leaders to maintain and manage church affairs. As new churches are being planted in their surrounding areas, we encourage them to develop a missions heart. The leadership then baptize and train new believers, regularly partaking in communion and tithes. During this year, our local co-workers continue to visit the villages three to four times per month.

Phase 3: Develop indigenous churches

Part of the training is to teach new believers how to face cultural confrontations caused by their new faith. We continue to train new church leaders on how to manage the affairs of each home church. Our local co-workers continue to visit new churches, encouraging church leaders. We make sure that the new house churches are supplied with Bibles and other Christian literature for more effective evangelism and discipleship. Training now shifts from the training center to the new village house churches. Emphasis is now placed on ministering in the church rather than the training center.

Phase 4: Releasing the church to be independent

In the fourth year, our challenge is expansion of the leadership team within newly planted village churches. This includes encouraging believers to develop indigenous styles of worship, and challenging the leadership team to develop their own strategy for evangelism and church planting in the ethnic group. We teach believers to manage their finances and generate wealth for supporting indigenous outreach. All training of new believers is transferred from the local co-workers to the actual indigenous church leaders.

Check out our 5 training centers:

Pilot, The Hub, The Edge, 26 Tribes, and Bamboo.