{"id":14646,"date":"2026-05-06T16:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14646"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:12:27","slug":"ethiopia-taking-the-gospel-to-people-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14646","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: Taking the Gospel to People on the Move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Mission Network News, April 15, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many ethnic groups in Ethiopia are still unaware of the hope found in Christ. The Argobba people are one of them\u2014but reaching them comes with a unique challenge: They are constantly on the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Argobba are a traveling people, an unreached Muslim group of no more than 250,000. Farming and trade shape their daily lives. However, external pressures (conflicts between majority people groups) continue to disrupt their stability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd you\u2019ve got this small group like the Agobba, who just want to live peacefully and tend their plots of land. But others are coming in, pushing them out, and moving them from place to place. Those are the dynamics that make gospel witness very challenging,\u201d [says Greg Kelley of Unknown Nations].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is where [the] ministry partners with local believers who know their country. Kelley explains, \u201cThey\u2019re distributing our solar-powered audio Bible in their local dialect, their local language, and listening groups are forming.\u201d As a result, Argobba people are beginning to know Jesus as they hear the gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/how-do-you-take-the-gospel-to-the-argobba-people-on-the-move-move-with-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another MNN story explores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/news\/a-glimpse-into-ministry-strategy-across-the-mena-region\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">challenges to ministry in the MENA region<\/a> (Middle East and North Africa).\u00a0nd for another interesting read, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nomadicpeoples.net\/blog\/nomads-in-the-shadow-of-irans-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nomads in the Shadow of Iran\u2019s War<\/a> (Nomadic Peoples Network).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Mission Network News, April 15, 2026 Many ethnic groups in Ethiopia are still unaware of the hope found in Christ. The Argobba people are one of them\u2014but reaching them comes with a unique challenge: They are constantly on the move. The Argobba are a traveling people, an unreached Muslim group of no more than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ethiopia: Taking the Gospel to People on the Move<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14647,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14646\/revisions\/14647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}