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Native missionaries are the answers to the world mission challenge today

Evan though Christianity is non-political, non-military and non-economic, it is commonly misunderstood to be the religion of the colonial oppressive imperial structures due to the historical settings and its customs of singing and cloths etc. Graham Staines and his two lovely children (missionaries), the recent martyrs in India, are only the victim of this misunderstanding. Christian missionaries from the west are banned in 119 countries where the Gospel is not reached like North African, West African, West Asian, South Asian, and South East Asian countries. In other words, today half of the world population and the majority of the unreached people live in countries that restrict Western missionaries.

Missionary training costs about hundred thousand dollars in a western setting and western missionary family to live in a mission field cost about fifty to seventy five thousand dollars per year (It varies from country to country). Native missionaries are cost efficient and they are completing, what western missionaries began. A western missionary will never be able to fully indigenize with the natives and even it takes five to ten years to learn language of communication.

Mountain of Helping Hand Ministry (www.mhhmin.org) We can multiply our effectiveness by thousand times if we are wiling to change our perspective about mission. Native missionaries are hidden but already called, commissioned and sent forth to carry the Gospel to the unreached villages, peoples and nations.

MHHM likes to faithfully stand as a bridge between the native missionaries and the western world, in order to communicate well for the soldiers of the cross.

Binu Peniel www.mhhmin.org

Amazing reality of Mission in 10/40 Window

The 10/40 window consist of two thirds of the world’s 6 billion plus population and mission work in the two third world remains untouched. Every year 2.5 million children die in India, accounting for one in five deaths in the world. Just a little over 1% of the church's missions finances are used to reach this population. This means about 99% of the mission fund are used to reach one third of the world’s population! May God help us refocus our outreach. Persecution of the Christian believer is common throughout the 10/40 window. Being a Christian in these countries could mean imprisonment or death.

There are hundreds of churches and mission stations and missionaries working in 10/40 Window. Most of our church will take another five to ten years to be self supportive and few years for the mission stations to become established churches. In each fellowship average 50- 200 believers worship regularly. Church offerings and freewill contributions are not sufficient for the church expense.

Women believers have always been at the forefront of the Church’s mission work in the 10/40 Window. Women were evidently involved not only in Jesus’ ministry but also in Paul’s missionary endeavors.

The children and youth are the future promises/ prospects of the Churches in the 10/40 Window. Prayer is the key that opens the doors of heaven. It is through prayer that God works for His people. Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.” (Zech. 4: 6 AKJV).

You may know the pastors/missionaries have been facing a lot of problems in the mission field in the 10/40 Window. Some pastors are persecuted, and oppositions occur even during worship services. Social workers as well as missionaries who are going out for ministry are prone to be attacked by anti-Christian elements at any time. Nevertheless, even in the midst of all these problems people are being saved and churches are planted. This is just because the church is of the Lord, who is its Head and Master. Not the strength of man, but the dynamic power of the Holy Spirit is necessary for the church and its ministry. I firmly believe that if the believers can pray in one accord, all the hindrances and obstacles will fall asunder in front of us.

How I wish that God the Almighty would use these entities for the growth of the church as well as for the transformation of the believers into spiritual men and women of God !

“If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not His own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Rom.8: 31, 32 AKJV).

Mountain of Helping Hand Ministry (www.mhhmin.org) is a strong presence in the 10/40 Window. MHHM need your regular support.

Binu Peniel www.mhhmin.org