ETHIOPIA (MNN) — Ethiopia is a key access point for the gospel into North Africa, and God is moving to reach those within its borders.
World Mission’s Greg Kelley shares about a recent field visit to the country.
“We’re here working with an indigenous network of Ethiopian leaders that are doing pioneer evangelism with really the ultimate goal of raising up disciples who will multiply and plant churches into these areas.”
World Mission has worked in Ethiopia for the past eight years. Their ministries include sharing The Jesus Film and distributing solar-powered audio Bibles among people with little to no access to the good news of Christ.
Kelley says they see God doing amazing things as the gospel is going out.
“When you go into these villages, you meet people who for the first time are encountering Jesus.
“They’ll listen to [the audio Bible] for a few minutes, and then they’ll stop and they’ll look at you and they’ll say, ‘This is truth.’”
(Photo courtesy of World Mission)
Many unreached people groups in Ethiopia are in remote, hard-to-reach places, some of which have Islamic influences that are tremendously hostile to Christian witness.
“They’re difficult places to reach, too,” says Kelley. “Some of them are highly isolated — they’re behind mountains, they’re in very rural areas, and in the case of the Muslim people groups, very hostile.”
“We heard of one missionary just recently that was beaten almost to death. His crime was sharing the gospel. It’s that kind of tenacity and boldness that we’re seeing here in Ethiopia.”
Pray for missionaries in Ethiopia to continue to courageously take the gospel to the unreached and become a missionary-sending force to other nations in North Africa.
Header photo courtesy of World Mission.
