BOOM(!) is the best way to describe the economic climate that has characterized China over the past few decades. This has caused millions of villagers, from remote regions, to migrate to the nation’s mega-cities. Much of this new surge in the population are from unreached people groups and, although this means that there are still millions of souls who have never heard the precious name of Jesus, God has continually paved the way so that we may be able to reach China’s unreached with the gospel in ways we’ve never been able to before.

Last month we conducted a training seminar on Christian leadership and church planting. The Unreached People Groups Ministry subsidizes the costs for leaders from unreached people groups to attend Bible-based training. Our mission is to provide church leaders with a strong foundation in the Word, so that they can continue to reach unreached people groups and win souls for Christ. We believe there is no better strategy than to invest in leaders.

Ma Xi Hu was born of an unreached people group and raised in the mountains of China. Brought up to worship spirits and taught superstitious practices, she knows too well the realities of living a life in darkness. Ma was a firsthand witness to demonic torment and bondage, as she watched her mother become drastically ill and occupied by evil spirits. Ma and her mother desperately searched for a cure, but no medicine, witch, or doctor had the power to deliver these women.

The Unreached People Groups Ministry recently conducted a training in which several people from the A-Che tribe of rural China came together to study God's Word. The purpose of this training was to share with them Kingdom principles, through stories and parables from the Bible, that were translated into the A-Che native tongue—a recording project the UPG Ministry has been working on for several years.

The Unreached People Groups Ministry is all about "firsts." To begin with, I'm often the first foreigner many Chinese villagers meet in person.

Jesus has been fighting for the soul of Jian Bo for a long time, but this young Chinese man, a former boxer, had never even heard His name.

Recently, the Unreached People Groups Ministry—along with our ministry partner, Pastor Paul Fang—trekked through dangerous conditions to bring the gospel to the "Lalu" people and interact with them.

It is our goal at Heaven's Family's Unreached People Groups Ministry to change minority societies and diminish poverty by calling forth true worshippers of Christ, and then training them to reach their own people.

Masked people can be seen all over China's large cities, usually for skin and lung protection from the harmful contaminates that pollute much of that nation's air. So when we met the woman in the photo above, we were not taken by surprise—or frightened!