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METROPOLITAN BIBLICAL INSTITUTE
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MISSIONS

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And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world, as a testimony to
all nations; and then the end will come." Matthew 24:14 (R. V. 1960)

Pastor Pedro Key 2020

 MISSIONS
COURSE PLAN

DESCRIPTION OF THE SUBJECT: A study of the theology of God's mission and the
missions of the Church based on the divine purpose and plan as revealed in the Bible and in the
history. He faces the remaining task of bringing the gospel to the unreached. He fosters the
missionary spirit of the Church to form and organize the local church in such a way that it can
to effectively fulfill the great commission of making disciples of all nations.

OBJECTIVES
ATTITUDES
Feel the passion of the Holy Spirit for the unreached
2. Realize the great importance of prayer for the countries and peoples that are less evangelized and accept
la obligación solemne de ser fiel en el ministerio de la oración intercesora, el dar misionero y la
mobilization of a missionary church.

KNOWLEDGE
1. Explain God's plan for the universe as revealed in the Bible.
2. Describe the historical progress of the missionary movement.
3. Familiarize yourself with some missionary principles and methods that have helped achieve good results.
results that can be useful in their own ministry.

SKILLS
1. Describe the relationship between Israel, Christ, The Kingdom, and The Church.
2. Discover the existing opportunities in missionary fields today.
3. Find out what your individual responsibility is in the overall program of world evangelization.

BASIC THEME
The Purpose and Plan of God.
2. God's Mission in the Old Testament
3. The Mission of God in the New Testament
4. The Theology of the Mission of the Church, the Missionary People of God
5. The History of the Expansion of the Church
6. The Remaining Task: The Unreached Groups
7. The Responsibility of Every Believer
8. The Local Church, a Missionary Center
9. The National Missionary Agency
10. The Development of a Personal Mission Commitment Plan

METHODOLOGICAL SUGGESTIONS
Maps will be needed to chart the extent of the gospel and to see how far we have come.
2. in the fulfillment of the commission to evangelize the world and what are the parts that remain to be
evangelize.
3. Read biographies of people who influenced the progress of the missions.
4. Divide the class into groups that will represent the various continents of the globe to present in front.
from the class reports on the missionary efforts of those regions.
5.
ALTERNATIVE TEXT:
1. Worldwide Mission: The Biblical and Historical Foundations
2. Misión mundial: un análisis del movimiento cristiano mundial--Lewis, Jonatán y Gornica, F.
INTRODUCTION:

The term 'MISSIONARY' refers to a person whose main objective is the announcement of the gospel.
through works and words among those who do not believe. That form of mission is precisely
conocida comoad gentes, es decir, hacia las gentes, gentiles o no cristianos, y se desarrolla en
places where the gospel has not been sufficiently proclaimed or welcomed, or in environments
refractory located beyond its own borders where preaching and acceptance is difficult
message.

BARRIERS OF THE GOSPEL IN MISSIONS.

Since its creation, the human being has been a social being. We were created to relate to each other.

with others and to live in community. So, by our very nature, we seek out people with
who we relate to. And we find that it is easier to connect with people who share
certain fundamental affinities with us, such as the language (linguistic affinity), the region where
we live (geographical affinity), the needs and spiritual search (religious affinity) and reality
experiential general (affinity of lifestyle or cultural affinity). Due to these affinities,
We understand these people, and they understand us as well. Therefore, we form groups.
natural with them, and this grouping forms a socio-cultural context where the affinities within
the context unites us and the lack of these affinities outside the context begins to create barriers
between us and these other contexts. In the exercise of their ministries, the church (and in particular the
Missionaries) have to work within socio-cultural contexts. It is inevitable. It is also very
healthy. Why? Because we work with human beings, beings that group together in these
socio-cultural contexts that express their needs and deeper searches in terms
related to these contexts. If our churches and our missionaries did not work within these
contexts, they would have no relevant message to the lives of these human beings. They would not have
no answer for your needs and searches. The new life that Jesus brings is embodied
within the socio-cultural context.

BARRIERS TO THE PREACHING OF THE GOSPEL:

There are characteristics, barriers or walls that make it difficult to bring the gospel to more than one ethnicity with
A single effort. The barrier or wall represents anything that hinders the flow of the gospel.
between two groups. For example:
1. LANGUAGE BARRIER: The language and its understanding. They do not understand each other well among the
groups. The basis of the research are the ethno-linguistic groups because this wall is very
common and very difficult. The language is a 'barrier to understanding'.
 2. GEOGRAPHICAL BARRIER: There are geographical impediments that separate or distinguish between
ethnic groups. It can be distance or terrain difficulty. These physical barriers sometimes reach
to create distinct ethnic identities.

3. POLITICAL BARRIER: There are political situations that divide groups. Disputes, wars or
political parties can create division among the ethnic group enough so that one does not
receive the gospel if it comes from the other group.

4. CULTURAL BARRIER: There are cultural distinctions that separate one ethnic group from another.
beliefs, customs, way of dressing, history, and hundreds of other details can distinguish
among ethnic groups. It is worth mentioning here the difference between what we can call 'ethno-groups'.
"linguistic" and "ethno-cultural groups". There is a trend in missions to talk about groups.
ethnic groups only according to the languages they speak. As we have said, the linguistic matter is
very important and forms a formidable barrier, however, we would make a great mistake in
to think that other distinctions do not matter. In Morocco, for example, seven or more are spoken.
dialects of Arabic (each should be considered a distinct language). However, the number
of Berber groups is more than double this number. In this case, if we ignore the realities
cultural and we only focus on the linguistic reality, the Berbers will continue without access to
gospel.

GOD WANTS TO BREAK DOWN THE BARRIERS:

God does not care how difficult it is to cross these barriers. For Him, everything is possible. We must arrive.
to the ethnic groups with the message of God. God is not intimidated by the apparent difficulty of the task, God
worries about the spiritual condition of the people belonging to these unreached ethnic groups, and
who are lost and in urgent need of salvation:

...Thus, it is not the will of your Father who is in heaven, that one of these should perish.
little ones..." (Matthew 18:14)

Now, the work of every Christian is to seek and save the lost, and this involves crossing barriers.
language, culture, geography, religion, and politics. There are the unreached:

...For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost...
 OUR RESPONSIBILITY TOWARDS THE UNREACHED.
While the word 'missions' is not found in Scripture as such, we understand
that the commandment to make disciples in all nations is the 'mission', better known as
The Great Commission that Jesus left to his disciples in Matthew 28:19-20. About this mission, the
Missionary Hudson Taylor once said: 'The Great Commission is not an option to be considered.'
"but a commandment to be obeyed." Unfortunately, the church has fallen into a terrible
neglect towards the mission of making disciples in all nations. We have done everything but
the only thing that the Lord commanded us to do. You may ask: Are there no Christians in every
country in the world? Sure. But Jesus did not say that we should make disciples in every country but in each
nation. The word 'nation' in Greek is etnos which is the root from where our word comes from.
ethnicity.

Currently, there are 16,475 ethnic groups around the world, and it is estimated that 6,664 still
are considered as "unreached." When we talk about an "unreached" ethnic group, it refers to a
community of natives that does not have a church, believers, or sufficient resources or assistance
external. The term ‘not reached’ should not be confused with ‘lost’. Your neighbor may be
lost without Christ but in these terms does not mean that he is a 'not reached' precisely. A
unreached person has no access to the gospel, has no missionaries, no church, no Bible
in his own language. On the contrary, your neighbor, although he is not saved, has indeed been reached because
You have access to the gospel because He has you! You who have the gospel and a Bible are close to
él y él tiene acceso a ti y tú tienes una misión de compartirle el evangelio. Pero el 40.4 % de los
Ethnic groups do not have this kind of access to the gospel. Perhaps so many numbers may tire us.
A little, but I would like to raise the point that we have been able to neglect the missions with three.
statistics.

In the year 100 A.D., there were twelve groups unreached by each congregation, now there is a
group not reached per 1000 congregations.

It is estimated that for every dollar given to the church for any cause, less than one
cent is designated for missions in unreached groups. In some way it has
believed unconsciously or consciously that this commandment is selective, that means
to say, that it is not for everyone but for a few. Some in the past have
argued that this task was only granted to the twelve apostles. But this position
It is clearly far from what the Scriptures teach. We can see in the book of Acts
that those who brought the gospel to Judea and Samaria were not the apostles but the People
common, the Church of the Lord as a whole (Acts 8:1-4).

3. Finally, because there is a great lack of intent to go to the unreached towns,

The few missionaries that are sent mostly go to the already reached towns. Only
one out of every ten missionaries goes to the unreachables.
 So, what is the solution? The solution is that we look in the Scripture at the passion that he had.
the same Paul when he said: "...In this way I made an effort to proclaim the gospel, not where
Christ was already known, not to build on the foundation of another; but as it is written,
Those who were never told about Him will see, and those who have not heard,
they will understand...‖ (Romans 15:20-21).

Brothers, let's embrace the Great Commission, let's embrace the passion that Paul had at his time.
And the same Lord Jesus Christ to extend His precious gospel everywhere. Perhaps you think, 'I
I don't have the call to go to an unreachable place, but don't forget that you can support.
financially or take the commitment to seriously pray for missions and missionaries. Let's do it.
missions together, let us rise to pray, go and send.
 Window 10/40

Window 10-40 encompasses a vast region of countries where Christianity is still not
it can penetrate. It is called 'Window 10-40' because the core of the people has not yet been reached in
our planet lives in a rectangular space, shaped like a window, often called 'The
Resistant Belt and extending from West Africa to East Asia, from degree ten to
to the forty degree north of the Ecuador. In this geographical space are found the largest
Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist groups - billions of spiritually impoverished souls who
They need to know the Gospel.

The 10/40 window expresses several important considerations that require us to pray for this.
place:

Of the nearly 4 billion people living within this window, almost 70% of them
They are under 35 years old.

95% of people have not yet been reached by the gospel. It is the place with the countries
less evangelized. These people can die without knowing Christ.

87% of the people represent the poorest inhabitants of the world.

The predominance of the three major non-Christian religious blocs is based here.
region (Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism).

Prostitution is rampant, malnutrition and poverty are increasing.

The great ethnolinguistic variety.

The existence of large unvisited cities.

The Countries of the 10/40 Window

 Afghanistan, Algeria, Arabia Saudita, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Benin, Bhutan, Burquina Faso,
Cambodia, Chad, China, Chipre, Djibouti, Egipto, Etiopía, Filipinas, Gambia, Gibraltar, Grecia,
Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japon, Jordan, Korea, North Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Hong
Kong, India, Lebanon, Libya, Macau, Mali, Malta, Mauritania, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Niger
Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Qatar, Senegal, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tailandia, Tunisia,
Turquía, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Oeste Sahara, Yemen

THE BIBLICAL AND HISTORICAL REALITY:

It was in the 10/40 Window that we found the story of Adam and Eve. In the book of Genesis.
we read the historical account of the fall of man, we read about the flood followed by the building
from the Tower of Babel, events that took place, both, in Window 10/40. This effort of
man joining to challenge God resulted in the introduction of different languages, the
scattering of people and the formation of nations.

Ancient history developed in the territory marked by the 10/40 Window, from the cradle
from the civilization in Mesopotamia, through the Fertile Crescent, to Egypt. The empires
the ancients came and went. The fate of Israel, the people of God, rose and fell depending on its
obedience to the covenant with their God. Here Christ was born, lived his life, died on the cross, and rose again.

It was not until the second missionary journey of the apostle Paul, towards the end of the biblical record,
that the events of divine history began to occur outside the territory identified as the
Window 10/40. The fact that such a large part of God's dealings with humanity
took place in the piece of land encompassed by Window 10/40 is for the Christian
established an important reason to focus on it.

THE LEAST EVANGELIZED PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES:

Two thirds of the world's population reside here. These people live in sixty-two countries.
These cover sovereign states as well as non-sovereign dependent territories. Ninety-seven
percent of the three billion people living in the fifty-five least
Evangelized people live in the 10/40 Window. This constitutes the heart of the challenge for the Church.

We must think of the mission of Christ, who came to seek and save the lost, as taught.
the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin. Christ made great efforts to heal,
to restore and save just one person. We must consider Christ's command to preach the
gospel to every creature, make disciples of all nations, and be their witnesses to the end of
the earth when we think of these people who live in the 10/40 Window.

The Heart of Islam:

The 10/40 Window is the heart of Islam. North Africa and the Middle East represent the
core of the Islamic religion. The followers of the Islamic religion are increasing, as suggested
the increasing number of those who pilgrimage to Mecca. However, at the same time, it is reported that
Many Muslims, when studying the Quran closely, have discovered that Jesus Christ is the prophet.
greater that describes the Quran and not Muhammad.

We must ask God that just as Eastern Europe recognized that the atheistic ideology of
communism did not withstand the test of time, just as the "eyes" and the "hearts" of the
Muslims should be open to the truth.

The Three Religious Blocks:

In the 10/40 Window are located the three main religious blocks of the world. We have the
Muslim block with 706 million people. There is the Hindu block with 717 million. And there is the
Buddhist bloc with 153 million.

The Lesser Evangelized Ethnic Peoples and the 10/40 Window

On May 6, 1990, the Jordan Times newspaper in Amman, the capital of Jordan, published a
report about Algeria titled 'The collapse of communism will weaken Islam'. In a
conference regarding the future of Islam, the Egyptian writer Fahmi Howeide stated that 'the world
"Islamic is marginalized in a new map." Howeide was among forty scholars and leaders.
politicians from ten Arab countries who attended the conference. He said: “Christianity has been
regenerated in Eastern Europe... The changes in Eastern Europe showed that the liberal model
of society… based on Christian and capitalist principles, they were sweeping the world. To
Islam still lacks to present a viable alternative.

The Poorest:

More than eight out of ten of the poorest people, who have an average production
gross national income of less than five hundred dollars per person per year, live in the Window 10/40. More
Half of the world's population lives in poverty on less than an average of five hundred.
dollars per person. Of these, 2,400 million live in the 10/40 Window. Despite this fact, only
Eight percent of all missionaries work among these people.

In the book Target Earth, Bryant L. Myers wrote an article titled "Where are the poor and
lost?‖ Myers suggested that "the poor are lost and the lost are poor." He came to that
conclusion after observing that the majority of the unachieved live in the poorest countries
of the world.

There is a notable coincidence between the fifty poorest countries in the world and the countries
least evangelized in the world. Indeed, seventy-nine percent of the poorest people
they are also in the least evangelized countries in the world. When one relates them to the
Window 10/40 it seems that ninety-nine percent of these poorly evangelized 2,300
millions live in the 10/40 Window. Only six percent of the missionary force is currently working.
among these, which constitute forty-four percent of the world population. This, certainly,
It is the greatest challenge of this decade for the consecrated Christian.

The Quality of Life:

Another reason to focus on the 10/40 Window is related to the quality of life. A
The way to measure the quality of life has been to combine three variable factors: life expectancy,
infant mortality and literacy. More than eight out of ten people living in the fifties
countries in the world with the lowest quality of life also live in the 10/40 Window. This
represents forty-seven percent of the population, although only eight percent of the workforce
foreign missionary works among these people. More than nine out of ten of these people
they live in Hindu or Muslim countries.
 Quality of Life and the 10/40 Window

The psalmist wrote: 'Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord' (Psalm 33:12).
Certainly, when comparing the quality of life in the 10/40 Window with that of those
countries that have a higher percentage of Christians, it becomes evident that the Lord God blesses
the nation that turns back to Him. However, in turn, He expects that the blessed nation will be a
blessing for other nations, as it says in Psalm 67:1-2: "May God have mercy on us,
and bless us; make your face shine upon us; so that your name may be known in the earth
path, in all nations your salvation.

The Fortress of Satan

Why do committed Christians need to focus on the 10/40 Window? Because it is

a fortress of Satan. The people living in the 10/40 Window have suffered not only hunger and a
inferior quality of life compared to the rest of humanity, but it has also been seen
private of the power of the transformative gospel, giver of life and that changes communities.

The Scriptures clearly indicate through the writings of the apostle Paul that: "the god of
this century blinded the understanding of the unbelievers, so that the light of the gospel does not shine upon them
of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God" (2 Corinthians 4:4).

In the same letter, the apostle writes in 10:3-4: "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not...
we do not wage war according to the flesh; for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in
God for the destruction of fortresses. Looking closely at the 10/40 Window, it becomes
It is evident that Satan has established a territorial stronghold with his forces to hinder progress.
of the gospel in that territory.

We need to significantly increase our efforts in this decade to catch up with

those who are in the 10/40 Window. If we wish to be faithful to the Bible and obedient to the command of
Christ, if we wish to see the establishment of a movement that founds churches with a mindset
missionary in every town and city not reached in 2002, if we wish to give to all the
give people a valid opportunity to experience love, truth, and the saving power of
Jesus Christ, we must reach the core of the unreached: the 10/40 Window.

OPERATION AUCA

Stories of Revivals and Written Miracles

Five men (all young), with disparate personalities, from different areas of
The United States arrived in Ecuador with a common goal. They had responded to the same
demand: to preach the gospel where it has never been preached. One same and fierce people
they clung to the heart: the Aucas. To evangelize them, however, they should be willing to
lose everything.

Sunday, January 8, 1956 would be an unforgettable date, although painful, for the
missions in the Ecuadorian jungles, in South America.

That day the missionary Nate Saint left early from Arajuno, the operations base of the
Operation Auca
Aucas. He noticed a lack of men in her, which filled him with joy. On the way back to the head.
from the beach, which the missionaries had named 'Palm Beach', on the Curaray River, saw a group of
about ten men who were walking precisely towards that place. Leading the group, in a couple
minutes landed alongside his companions:

Finally, guys! They are coming this way!

For three months and two days, they had been provoking successive approaches by plane.
dropping gift after gift, with messages of goodwill, and now, at last, it had arrived the
time to meet face to face, on land. The five missionaries had invaded Auca territory five
days and they had finally decided to get closer.

With that good news, Nate called his wife Marj at half past twelve, who was still paying attention to her...
movements through the radio, in Shell Mera, the base of the Christian missions in Ecuador
oriental. With interrupted words he said:

A commission of ten men is on the way. It seems they will be here for the service.
early this afternoon - he said, joking - Pray for us. This is the day! We will talk again.
at four thirty.
 Five unrenounceable vocations

The 'Operation Auca' was the final thrust of a missionary strategy that had begun
deep in the hearts of five young American missionaries.

At a very young age, Jim Elliot, born in 1925, had prepared for what he believed would be the mission.
of his life: to preach the gospel to people who had never heard it in any country
Hispano-American. Since childhood, he became familiar with the Scriptures, and from his school years—where
he was an outstanding student - he was interested in learning Spanish.

Just before finishing school, I wrote to my parents: "In this life, there is no such thing as
a complete realization... May the Lord teach me what it means to live with the end in mind,
As Paul said: "I do not consider my life precious to myself; only that I may finish my race with
joy...

In August 1951, Jim met an old friend, Peter Fleming. Born in 1928, he
I had just graduated as a Licentiate and teacher in those days, and I was seeking divine guidance.
regarding their lives. As a result of that conversation, both realized that they had a destiny.
common. In February 1952, Jim and Pete were fulfilling their dream and traveling to Ecuador.

After six months of studying Spanish in Quito, they ventured into the jungle up to Shell Mera.
where the base of the Missionary Aviation Fellowship (M.A.F., for its initials in English) was.
there they continued their journey to Shandia, a Quichua missionary station.

In September 1953, Ed McCully, a former schoolmate of Jim, joined them.

athlete and prominent speaker. Son of a preacher, due to his extraordinary gifts he had thought
to become a lawyer, but one day before enrolling in that career, he decided to obey the call of
God. Now he, with his wife Marilou and their little son, joined the small missionary group in
Shandia.

Nate Saint and his wife Marj Farris had arrived in Shell Mera a few years before them, in
1948, as a pilot of the M.A.F. Professionally an aircraft mechanic, his mission in the M.A.F. consisted of
in transporting missionaries, their supplies, the sick to and from the farthest outposts
your little Piper Cruiser.

Roger Youderian, born in 1924, was an army paratrooper, and had fought in World War II.
World War. While in Berlin, he felt the calling to serve as a missionary. Since 1953 he had
has been serving among the Jíbaro and Atshuara Indians.

A special cargo

Although from different backgrounds and with different histories, the five young missionaries felt
a special burden for the Auca people. All the other nearby tribes had been reached: the
jíbaros, the quichuas, the colorados, the cayapas, but the aucas had fiercely resisted.
Who were they and why were they so hostile?

The Auca were an impenetrable tribe – and territory. All previous missionaries,
Since Pedro Suárez, in 1667, they had been murdered. However, for long periods, they...
they had opened to civilization, but time after time the experience ended in tragedy. So they returned
to close. Hostility towards the white man had been exacerbated by the seekers of
rubber, at the beginning of the 20th century, who had been robbed, tortured, enslaved, and killed. That
had plunged the Aucas into distrust and fear.

Many conjectures had been made by the missionaries about them. Are they natural born killers?
Do they kill to preserve their territory, to steal? Those questions had no answers. However, a
a couple of things seemed very clear: for the Aucas, the white man was undesirable, and whoever was
daring to step on their territory put their life at risk.

The Auca Operation

The 'Auca Operation' began in September 1955.

The first movement towards that area was made by Ed McCully, who settled in Arajuno, a
Quichua village of about a hundred people on the very edge of the Auca territory. Separated from them.
only by the Arajuno River, Ed put an electric fence around his house and set out to have
Always at hand a gun or a shotgun to use for intimidation in case of an attack.
Arajuno station became the base of the operation.

On September 19, Nate and Ed flew over the dense jungle searching for villages. After several
they discovered about fifteen clear spots and a few houses. Two weeks later,
Nate and Pete were able to carry out a new exploration and confirmed the existence of half a dozen of
large houses just fifteen minutes of flight from Arajuno. The target had already been located!

To overcome the language barrier, Jim traveled to a nearby estate where a woman lived.
a girl who had fled from her village. She taught Jim some phrases that would allow the
missionaries a first approach.

On October 6, they began with the regular weekly launch of gifts from the air,
using the technique that Nate had skillfully created. According to this technique, which he called "from the
In a spiral cord, a canvas bucket tied to a rope was thrown. The plane flew in circles.
closed at a certain speed that would allow the bucket to remain almost still at a central point.
Below, a person could pick it up with their hand, take out what it contained, and even put something in it.
what he would wish before this was raised again from the plane.

Visits and gifts began to happen one after another. The aucas received them with
Glad. For the fourth trip, Nate installed a battery-powered speaker in the plane to send the messages.
friendly ones that Jim had learned. In the sixth week, the aucas started to lay, from time to time.
when, a gift back in the basket. Every friendly sign from the aucas was received with
joy for the missionaries.

By December 3rd, they had already had nine visits. As time went by, they saw more.
They were nearing the day when they could approach them by land. To that end, they began to explore the terrain.
They found a beach next to the Curaray suitable for landing, located about 7 kilometers from the
"Terminal City", the town they used to visit by plane, and they decided to settle there on the 3rd of
January.
 The plan was outlined even in its smallest details. Each missionary was in charge of a part.
from the 'Operation'. Even Marj would have the important role of attending to the radio team at Shell
Mera, staying in constant contact with the plane. For her part, Bárbara (the wife of
Roger would stay in Arajuno with Marilou (Ed's wife) in preparing the food that
would take to Palm Beach daily.

At this point, the five wives had already realistically considered the possibility of
to become widows, and the conclusion for them was clear: when they got married, they accepted that they would never
There would be doubts about who occupied the first place in their marriages: God and His work.

El 18 de diciembre, Nate había escrito en su Diario: "Al sopesar el futuro y buscar la voluntad
Of God, does it seem fair that we risk our lives for just a few savages? To
asking ourselves this question, we realize that it is not the call of the thousands in need, but rather more
Well, the simple insinuation of the prophetic Word that there will be in His presence on the last day
some from each tribe; and we feel in our hearts that it is pleasing to the Lord that we
Let's be interested in opening the way to the prison Auca for Christ.

On the morning of January 3rd, the five men sang one of their favorite hymns and
they prepared to march. In three successive trips, the plane transported the necessary belongings, including
a small house that was installed in the trunk of a tree, ten meters high, next to the beach.

On Wednesday and Thursday, Nate and Peter, who were going to Arajuno to sleep, were flying over the 'City.
"Terminal" inviting men to come to Palm Beach. Some small signs announced them.
your next appearance.

On Friday at 11:15, a voice resonated across the river, and three aucas appeared: one
man and two women. The missionaries welcomed them warmly. As the man showed
interest in the airplane, Nate invited him to fly over his own village. The rest of the day
It went by without surprises.

Nothing special happened on Saturday.

D-Day

On Sunday the 8th, Nate saw from the air a group of aucas approaching decisively, and then
He called his wife to be ready for a radio contact at four thirty.

At four thirty, the wives connected, some from Shell Mera, others from
Arajuno. They called Palm Beach, but there was only silence. They waited until the last hour that night.
wanting to believe that the silence was only due to some small setback. The hours
Long and painful periods passed.

At seven in the morning on Monday the 9th, Johnny Keenan, Nate's colleague at the M.A.F., was flying.
he rushed to Palm Beach to get news about his companions. At nine thirty Johnny
he submitted his report, which Marj briefly retransmitted to everyone.

Johnny has found the plane on the beach. They have torn off all the fabric. There is no sign of
the boys.
 The following days

On Wednesday, missionary colleagues and American and Ecuadorian military organized a

rescue team that left Arajuno heading to Palm Beach. They still held hope of
to find at least one of the five missionaries returning on foot at every bend of the river.

When they arrived in Palm Beach, they discovered four bodies; the fifth had been sighted a little earlier.
before, but it was impossible to recover it downstream. The rescue patrol conducted a
small burial ceremony under the big tree with the little house.

On Saturday, the widows were invited to fly over Palm Beach and they were able to see for a few
instants the common grave of their husbands. Upon turning back the plane, Marj Saint, Nate's widow,
he said:

That small cemetery is the most beautiful in the world.

The wall breaks

El martirio de los cinco misioneros, publicada por los diarios, despertó la inmediata reacción en
the whole world. Greetings and condolences began to arrive from all parts to the five widows. The
The example of the martyrs encouraged many others to serve the Lord as missionaries.

In the meantime, plans were quickly made to continue the work of the martyrs. Johnny
Keenan resumed the flights with gifts over the Auca villages to demonstrate his intentions.
friendly. The work among the Quichua neighbors experienced a surprising boost. They themselves
they also began to pray for the Aucas.

On September 3, 1958, three years and eight months after the martyrdom, three Auca women
converted and indoctrinated by Elisabet Elliot and Raquel Saint–Nate's sister–they returned to their
village, where they stayed for three weeks talking about the love of God, manifested through the
missionaries.

A few days later, Elisabet and Raquel Saint entered that village themselves, as
response to an invitation. They were received as sisters there.

The death of five men had managed to break the ancestral distrust. The way for the
the word of truth had been opened: the Aucas could be reached with the gospel.

Real Statistics:
Total number of languages in the world - more than 6,800.
There are biblical translation programs currently underway in more than 1,500 languages.
everyone [among all the evangelical missions].
371 languages have a suitable translation of the entire Bible.
928 more languages have an appropriate translation of the New Testament.
902 languages have only some portions of the Bible translated.
There is a likely need for biblical translation in more than 3,000 languages.
 The number of people who speak a language without access to the Scriptures – at least 380
millions.
Number of people who die without Christ each day: (Based on data from the Book of Data
CIA and Operation World 2002)
World population: 6,972,688,217
.9 per 1000 per year global mortality index
Number of deaths per day worldwide: 149,547
% of the global population that believes in some version of the gospel: 7–15%
Number of people who die without Christ daily: from 127,000 to 139,000

Donations for missions:

87% of the donations are spent on projects established among people who are already Christian.

12% of the donated amount is spent on work among non-Christian but already evangelized people.

1% ($114 million dollars) is spent on projects among ethnic groups in the categories - not
"evangelized" or "unreached."

Global evangelization:

There are 201,260 Protestant missionaries in the world, and 2,932 missionary agencies.

There are still 1.5 billion people in the world who have not heard the gospel.
one person in four in the world.

In the least evangelized part of the world lives 86% of ethnic groups, of which
less than 2% are 'Christians.'

Christians designate only 1.2% of their donations for missions and their missionary staff.
to reach the 1.1 billion who live in the least evangelized part of the world.

More than 90% of Christian missionaries are working in the part of the world that is
consider Christian.

CONCLUSION:

Draw your personal conclusion and let's take a look at reality and what we can do to
improve these statistics. Blessings!