Dear friend,

I’ve written to you often to describe the immense need for the gospel among the world’s more than 3 billion unreached.

But I haven’t always explained why that need is so urgent.

I don’t know about you, but I’m not sure where I would be if it weren’t for the influence of godly Christian mentors, teachers, pastors, and parents who shepherded and directed me to the Lord through the years. God used people like these in my life to bring me to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and spare me from the eternal misery of separation from him.

Imagine how hopeless your life would be without that one key person the Lord graciously used to lead you to faith in him.

Yet at least 85% of the world’s Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims do not have a single Christian friend who can share the gospel with them.

This means that if they are to hear the gospel at all and have any hope of salvation, the Lord must work in extraordinary ways to reach them—by sending a missionary to them with the word of life.

From Despair to Discovery

Gautam was a former Buddhist monk disillusioned by rampant injustice in his South Asian city. When medical malpractice left his teenage son partially paralyzed, he searched in vain for treatments that could heal him. Gautam’s anger and love for his son propelled him to stage protests campaigning for social justice and environmental reforms, but his efforts failed to enact change. With medical costs rapidly depleting his finances, Gautam sank into depression, even considering suicide. As a last resort, he remembered the good things he had heard about Christianity and decided to investigate Jesus.

A Transformation Occurs

Gautam visited a local church, where he was greeted by William, an ABWE missionary. He explained to William that he believed “Jesus gave us good teachings, and by giving his life, he proved just how good of a man he was.” When William asked if he knew why Jesus died, Gautam exclaimed, “No, but that is absolutely essential for me to know!”

William grabbed a Bible and shared the gospel as Gautam eagerly listened. Gautam later told William that he couldn’t hear anything else around him but William’s words. He wondered if William was an angel sent by God and felt assured that what he said was certainly the truth. Gautam immediately repented of his sins and confessed Jesus as Lord. A few moments later, his wife and son also trusted Christ, and his daughter soon followed.

“His whole family changed,” reported William. By God’s grace, Gautam now studies at an ABWE- founded Bible college and was baptized with his wife and children. His son professed that, since believing in Jesus, he has experienced inexplicable peace. Miraculously, he began to recover from his physical disabilities. Two months after his baptism, he was able not only to walk but to run again, praising God for his healing.

The Great Need

But for more than 400 million Buddhists worldwide, there is no church nearby, no Bible on hand, and no missionary friend like William to present the way of salvation. How will they hear unless someone goes? (Romans 10:14-15).

The missionaries of ABWE are burdened by this sobering reality. That’s why one of our strategic initiatives is to raise up new church planting teams among the unreached—targeting spiritually dark places where Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, and others desperately need to hear the gospel for the first time.

Your generous gift to the Global Gospel Fund directly impacts our ability to bring the gospel to these lost people groups. It takes about $7,000 to help a missionary identify their calling and get the training they need to begin their ministry journey. By sending more laborers into the harvest with the gospel of Jesus Christ, we can pierce through the darkness for more unreached souls like Gautam.

Your generosity is equipping missionaries to go where Christ is not yet named. Right now, there are hundreds of candidates seeking to take the next step in obedience to the Great Commission. Would you consider a special gift today towards our spring goal of $35,000 to send more laborers into the harvest?

Every lost soul needs someone to bring them the gospel—just as someone once brought it to
you. Will you help send that messenger today?

Striving for the faith, 

Paul L. Davis 

President
ABWE 

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