Source: Pioneers-USA, June 2, 2015<\/p>\n
The Tarahumara [are] a people group scattered throughout the canyons and mountains of the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico\u2014within 150 miles of the US border.<\/p>\n
Displaced from the verdant valleys of northern Mexico by Spanish conquistadors, the Tarahumara fled into the canyons and mountains of the Sierra Madre. Like the buried treasure in Jesus\u2019 parable, a people group of 120,000 has remained hidden from the outside world for centuries.<\/p>\n
Reaching the tiny settlements connected by a spider web of footpaths, learning the language, and finding culturally understandable inroads for the gospel have proven daunting for Christian workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can count on one hand in the last 500 years the number of missionaries who have learned the Tarahumara language,\u201d notes [a Christian worker].<\/p>\n
But that is all changing\u2026<\/p>\n
\u00bb See full story<\/a> with pictures and watch a related video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Pioneers-USA, June 2, 2015 The Tarahumara [are] a people group scattered throughout the canyons and mountains of the state of Chihuahua in northern Mexico\u2014within 150 miles of the US border. Displaced from the verdant valleys of northern Mexico by Spanish conquistadors, the Tarahumara fled into the canyons and mountains of the Sierra Madre. Like … Continue reading MEXICO: Treasure in the Sierra Madre<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","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=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}