What in the world is a "UUPG"?

Salvation belongs to our God

who sits on the throne,

and to the Lamb!

Question : What is a UUPG and why are they important?

Answer:

An unengaged unreached people group (UUPG) has no known active church planting underway. According to the IMB Global Research Office :

"A people group is engaged when a church planting strategy, consistent with evangelical faith and practice, is under implementation. In this respect, a people group is not engaged when it has been merely adopted, is the object of focused prayer, or is part of an advocacy strategy."

At least four essential elements constitute effective engagement:

apostolic effort in residence;
commitment to work in the local language and culture;
commitment to long-term ministry;
sowing in a manner consistent with the goal of seeing a Church Planting Movement (CPM) emerge.

We share this because the Lord may be leading us to focus on an UUPG in Thailand, and we are praying for God to bring some long-term missionaries to join in the work - maybe you??? If you'd like more information please contact us.

Please stay tuned, and please pray for wisdom, clear leading,

and the Lord to send workers into his harvest.

Recently, we took our second trip to Northern Thailand to visit a UUPG. Here is a photo from that journey.

Short-term laborers still needed to help at the evangelistic English center!

We have a need for 2020, especially March, April , May.

The April session is a special, shortened session. Short-term workers need to arrive by April 16 and be in Thailand until at least May 7 - just 22 days (typically we need you to be with us for 30-31 days).

We are also looking for a new site director (long-term service) to allow us to pursue other ways God has gifted and is leading us. Please pray!

We want to give a special thank you to Bob, Diane and Lindy Dalberg who joined us to help at the English Center in January.

For more information about serving, please click here .

A harvest is happening! For the current list of seekers - people who’ve received a Bible, new believers, and church members - who need your prayers, please click here: I will pray

**If you need information on ways to financially support us,

please click here: Support info.

As always, we thank God for you and your partnership in spreading the gospel in Thailand.

Yours in Christ,

Todd and Karen