Why work with a people group that is so small, and whose language will someday disappear?
When I was in youth group fellowship, our church had car washes as fundraisers. We actually let the 16 year olds drive the cars from the rinse station to the soap station, to the vacuum station, to the dry station. It was moderately fun to drive around other people’s cars. But if a corvette or jaguar drove up, the teenagers really competed for the chance to drive that car around from station to station. Those fancy cars were desirable. Large influential people groups in industrial countries are desirable. We like the convenience and comfort found in those cultures. Poor, hidden, tiny people groups in forgotten countries are not as convenient or glamorous, but God desires them! He desires their worship, and that the “Ford Pintos” of cultures, the small people groups with little influence in the world, would know Him as their Heavenly Father, and would love him and be satisfied in Him. That’s why we work with a small people group (2500 people) whose language may disappear in the next 100
