ASIA: First Believer in the Valley

Source: United World Missions, May 2018

For the past few years, we’ve been taking groups from the States to areas in the mountains with hundreds of pockets of unengaged, unreached minority peoples.

In 2016, we had an American leader come to see what this was all about and decide whether or not his congregation would get involved. We took him and some others high up in the mountains (14,000+ feet) in a very rural area where many of the villages consist of only a few homes. As they were driving through a village, the leader pointed west up another valley and asked what was up there. We didn’t know. A very outdoorsy person, he asked to be dropped off and allowed to hike up there by himself for the day.

At the end of the day they picked him up. He said he had hiked, worshiped, and prayed up the valley. At one point he had been invited into a home. These people didn’t speak any English, and he didn’t speak their language, but they had a great time drinking tea together. He prayed for and blessed the home before he left. After the trip, he decided his congregation would adopt that valley.

The next summer we were holding the semi-annual English camps which take place in our city for students from these mountain groups. One of the students, Z, trusted in God during the camp. Afterward, he needed a ride back home, so one of our colleagues gave him a ride back to his very remote village. His home was the same one that the leader had visited a year before. Z became the first believer in his valley.

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