The Need for Leaders

We continue to be overwhelmed by the needs of the indigenous church around the world. I want to share with you an example of the need that we see across SE Asia, this report comes from Laos:

There is an extreme shortage of leaders who really love God and have knowledge of the Word of God to teach and preach. One Bible school student described his term break activities with some other key leaders in Laos. They visited a village where there are 16 Christian families, but about a year ago a man from a cult came and divided them into 2 groups. 7 families left and joined with the cult and 9 families remained with the church.

A leader of the area invited two churches to help him teach at his seminar. The people were so thrilled to see that there are Khmu teachers who are well trained and equipped to teach them. The Khmu Bible teachers started teaching at 6:00 am until noon and then again at 1:00 - 6:00 pm. The people’s hunger and thirst for God’s Word was obvious as seen by their untiring listening to the Word of God throughout 3 days and 3 nights. But the two teachers were exhausted! The people asked the two Bible teachers to stay in their village and be their pastor, and they offered to give them land for cultivation and help them build a house.

The key to this story is the Bible teachers that went to the village were Khmu and not American. I believe very strongly that the future of missions will depend on well trained and equipped national leaders. The Aquila Project is committed to "equipping and encouraging sacrificial servants in restricted access countries in order to advance the Great Commission". Thank you for joining with us on this journey.

J