How to Reach a New Language Group

First you need to choose which people group you want to reach out to.  Check the "List 3" of people groups that do not yet have Good News recordings at http://www.everytongue.com/list3-nothing.htm.  Then follow this simple plan.

This plan for reaching all cultures with the Good News can be easily remembered using the acrostic word M-A-R-K-E-T.  We choose the word MARKET because any tourist to an unreached people group can most easily meet the members in a place where the group does their buying and selling.  Markets are a safe place where tourists and native peoples most naturally first get to know one another.  After buying a souvenir handicraft from a member of an unreached tribe, you can then ask that tribal person questions about their language and culture.  You could even go as far as to ask them to listen to or to make a cassette tape of their language.  You could gain a huge entry into an unreached tribe by buying their goods and exporting them to your home country.

Follow these steps to reach an un-engaged people group (an un-engaged people group is an ethnic group that has not been presented with the Good News and also has no evangelists trying to reach it):

M – Meet an un-engaged people group in their markets

            (Don’t make big plans until you meet a member of the group.  Find them in their market place.)        

A – Assess their needs and gospel tools

            (As you do business with them, ask them if there are Christians.  Test any gospel tools or cassettes.)

R – Record the Good News in their language

            (Hire a bi-lingual member of the group to make a gospel cassette from a script you provide.)

K – Keep your focus on un-engaged people groups

(Move on to another group if you find the first group has Christians.)

E – Evangelize some people using the recording

            (Play the cassette for as many members of the tribe as you can.  Ask what they think.)

T – Train a team of native church planters

            (If you find Christians or if people become Christians, train them to plant churches.  If there are no Christians, train those from a nearby culture.  Usually some members of your minority group have learned a trade language of a majority group where Christians can be found.)

Click on the link below, and you will go to an English script that you can get translated by a bi-lingual person into a new language.  When you have it translated in written or oral form if there is no written alphabet, make a new Good News recording.  First, record 30 seconds of some folk music from the people group you are reaching.  Try to find public domain music which no one will mind being copied.  Then, have someone read the script onto your recorder.  End with more ethnic music.  The total recording will be between 20 and 30 minutes depending on how fast your reader reads it.  If you make a recording, please also make it available on the Internet and tell us how we can link to it.  If you want us to put the recording on the Internet, please email us, and we will give you mailing instructions:  info@BringJesusBack.org. 

Here is the script called "Draw Through the Bible."  This is a public domain booklet, and you have full rights to use it and duplicate it.  If you translate the script in written form and the people group members can read, you can make a booklet for your new language group to follow along with the pictures. 

http://www.everytongue.com/story

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