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You know that feeling when something just keeps coming up? Like when the Holy Spirit is trying to get through to you. Maybe: “Stop gambling! I don’t care if the Powerball is $800 million!” Or in my case, “You don’t need a donut and pancakes, you carb-freak!” Or within a few days, from two totally different directions, the BEMA Podcast was recommend to my wife and I. (Turns out it is amazing!)
Similarly, I can’t get away from Chad. As we close out this month of October praying through the 10/40 Window I want to bring us back to that country that keeps coming back to me, mentioning one thing that makes kingdom progress so difficult, one that gives me hope and ask you one potentially terrifying question.
Challenging Isolation
One of the key reasons Chad has 80 unreached peoples, of which a staggering 46 are unengaged is that its 17 million people are so spread out and speak over 100 languages. Living in the pleasantly highway-ed U.S., it’s hard to imagine how difficult it is to get place to place in Chad. And then when you get there, needing to speak a different language.
Powerful Church
According to Operation World, between 10 and 30% of Chadians follow Jesus. A small, but growing cadre of them are training and reaching out to Muslims both near and far. This is helping to offset the decline of foreign missionaries. Grace and love and power to them.
Wide Open Doors
I would love to go to Chad. . .for a visit. Living there feels pretty scary to me. How about you? Missionary and development visas are available, making official residency more possible than many places. Want to do something risky? Look at this list of opportunities one agency has open. What if you fit one of them!?!? (I give that challenge trusting your maturity and boundaries.)
I’m scheming with an insightful friend to catalyze a Chadian student conference focused on unengaged peoples next summer. Reach out if you’d like to be in on that.
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