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Middle East
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AFRICA

Ethiopia:

Afar
The 1.1 million Afar people of northeast Ethiopia are 99.2% Muslim. The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) has been asked by the Afar government officials to assist in the provision of a number of services; veterinary, literacy, water, along with grinding mills, tree nurseries and hostels. We have partnered with the EECMY to undertake these opportunities in a careful and sensitive way as part of a holistic ministry.

Arssi Oromo
Light of Hope Ministries in Ethiopia is reaching out to the 8 million Arssi Oromo people, who are Muslims. Light of Hope is training and sending teams of teacher/evangelists to villages that want schools to help with education and to plant churches. Funds will help build schools in villages and train the teachers.

Dawro/Ameya/Kaffa Outreach
A young Dawro woman who received a healing vision of Jesus started a people movement among the Dawro people. The resulting mother church, in the small town of Ameya, has started more than six daughter churches, and each of them has multiple “granddaughter” churches and preaching points. The Dawro and other local Christians continue to reach out with the gospel to other language and culture groups in their area PFF helps fund literacy and Bible training for lay leaders.

Menja Holistic Outreach
The Menja people of Southwest Ethiopia are a despised hunter-gatherer culture surrounded by agriculturalists. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, evangelists broke through social taboos and shared the gospel with Menja families. PFF supports evangelism among the Menja and training for Menja lay leaders. Partners are working with the local church to develop livelihood options (sheep bank, modern bee keeping) for the Menja, as their forests are declining.

Surma
The Suri (Surma) are a tribe in Southwest Ethiopia who had no known followers of Jesus until John and Gwen Haspels began to live and work among them in 1994. The Haspels brought a holistic Good News, initiating a Suri translation of the Bible with an accompanying adult literacy program, building a school for children and a medical clinic for all, making fresh water available from the mountains and opening up an agricultural test plot to develop good farm practices. Today there is a developing church among the Suri.

Sudan
Darfur School Outreach
The Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) is engaged in ministry in Darfur. Local Muslim chiefs have requested teachers for their schools, and teaching about Jesus. SPEC also provides relief goods. Classes have begun, and SPEC is looking for additional teacher/evangelists for this ministry. The teachers are able to both teach children and the adults.

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ASIA

Russia
Siberia Unreached Peoples
The Nenets and the Khant are groups of nomadic reindeer herding people and fishermen living in the arctic region of Russia and Siberia. Living in teepees, they follow the reindeer herds as they migrate north and south seasonally to find good pastureland. PFF is working with partner churches to train and encourage evangelists among the Nenets and the Khant. Prospective work in Siberia is also envisioned among the Mansi, Selkup, Dolgan, Yakut, Buryat, Khakas, Evenk and Tuvan peoples further to the east.

Central Asia
PFF is actively engaged in various frontier mission projects in the Central Asian region. Due to security concerns these projects are not published on the Internet. To learn more about these opportunities and how you and your church can partner with PFF to see the Kingdom of God grow among the unreached peoples of Central Asia, please contact the PFF office.

East Asia:

China
Minority Peoples
The greatest people movement to Christ in history has occurred in China over the last 30 years. Yet China remains the largest unreached block under one political regime in the world. PFF’s focus is among the minority people groups in southwest China. One creative movement now is among the Lisu believers, who are reaching out to many of those groups with a vision reaching across formidable barriers.

South Asia:
India
BORN
Bihar, India’s second largest state, has about 100 million people and is around 2% Christian. It has ranked at the bottom of all measurement scales in India: poverty, literacy, crime, corruption, etc. The Bihar Outreach Network, BORN, is a network of mission organizations that is doing holistic church-planting work in Bihar. Churches are being established, people are being trained in culturally appropriate ways, leadership is being developed, and in the last 8 years, the number of annual baptisms has grown from 1,250 to almost 50,000! Funds support all this work in the following categories: Bible schools and training, indigenous church planters, a new training center and training and sending evangelists to the Koshi area that was flooded in 2008.

India
Rural Presbyterian Church – Dalits
The Rural Presbyterian Church of India continues to grow among the Dalit people of India. A total transformation of lives is occurring as people come to faith in Jesus and realize what it means to be a child of God, in the image of God. They are being educated for meaningful work as well as discipled in their faith. This group of believers is now over 1.3 million strong and continuing to grow rapidly. Funds support different areas of ministry.

Pakistan:
Pakistan continues to be a critical part of the world today! Though it is predominantly a Muslim country, there are minority Hindu peoples in the Sindh area of the southeast. Presbyterian missionaries are working there among the Megwhal. Their work includes evangelism and discipleship, with a focus on prayer ministry.

NE India – Tribals:
The Welsh revival of 1904 spilled across the globe to NE India. Many of the tribal groups, such as the Mizo, responded to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our work has been to come alongside these partners to assist and stimulate their frontier mission vision through efforts like a Perspectives course. The NE is the strongest Christian area of India, a potential powerhouse for mission.

NE India - Zou Synod:
This work is an example of coming alongside a traditional partner and helping their frontier vision. The partnership was formally entered into in January of 1996. Dardenne Presbyterian Church, Dardenne Prairie, MO has been the champion of this work among the majority Hindu Meitei people in the State of Manipur, and others are needed. Work has begun in the capital city.

Southeast Asia:
Cambodia
The Cambodia Presbyterian Fellowship is reaching out into a number of villages as well as the capital, Phnom Penh. Funding supports discipleship efforts, self-help projects, and training meetings.

Laos
The Lao Evangelical Church works under much government pressure, but it continues to grow, from 15,000 in 1990 to over 150,000 today. Funding supports training for lay pastors who work in many villages, some covering a number of churches. We also help support an annual gathering of church leaders in another country for training, encouragement and refreshment.

Vietnam
The Vietnamese Presbyterian Church continues to grow in spite of government pressure. The church has a number of holistic projects, and we also support training efforts. In addition, students at Pittsburgh Seminary relate to the unreached Eastern Cham people and are fostering ministry among them.

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EUROPE

Bosnians:
In the town of Mostar, Bosnia, PFF is supporting a fledgling gathering of Croatian-background, Serbian-background, and Muslim-background followers of Jesus. The Gospel is bringing together people who otherwise would never get together, breaking down barriers of hatred and prejudice as well as providing a unique opportunity for reconciliation with God and others.

Iranians:
Iranians may be today’s most responsive segment of the Muslim world. Much of this openness occurs as Iranians have been uprooted from their home country. From a base in Berlin, Rev. Sadegh Sephri ministers to Iranians who have migrated to Europe.

Roma:
For the past ten years, PFF has been strengthening its historical partnership with the Reformed Church of Hungary and Ukraine in order to develop mission outreach to the Roma or Gypsy people, who some people call “The Untouchables of Europe”. The Roma have a culture all their own; and they struggle to find acceptance with the majority people who surround them. In both Hungary and Ukraine, indigenous Roma congregations are beginning to emerge.

Germany:
Following 21 years of a holistic ministry among the 50,000 Kurds in Berlin, two workers are relocating to the Kurdish homeland to learn and serve. Another worker will carry on the ministry in Berlin, continuing to share the love of Jesus through evangelism and assisting Kurds with daily needs. Funding will help support this worker’s two-year transition to developing her own support base.

Turkey:
Ministry to Turks
Outreach in Turkey moves along various levels. The small but growing Protestant Church carries on evangelism and leadership development efforts among people who are turned off on Islam and want to be seen as Christians. Others are reaching out to Muslims in a way that leaves them in their cultural context so they can continue to relate and reach out to their networks of relationships. We also support evangelism and discipleship work among Iranians, some of whom live in Turkey and others who are from Iran who are part of the exploding house church movement there.

Ministry to Iranians: A team of Iranians are serving as evangelists and church planters in Turkey, reaching out to the many Iranians who fled there to escape the turmoil in Iran. They are also reaching out to the Turkish people. In addition they are training Iranian house church leaders, who are able to come to Turkey for the training. Funding will help provide 5,000 copies of the New Testament in the Persian and Turkish languages to be distributed as part of these efforts. (PFF Only)

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LATIN AMERICA

Mexico
Lacandon, Indigenous Outreach
There are only 700 Lacandon people who live in five villages in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. The National Presbyterian Church of Mexico supports Dario Lopez as missionary to this group of people. Dario is from the Tzelel people group. We are participating in the training and sending of Dario.

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MIDDLE EAST

Middle East:
J and D are involved in a professional organization in the Middle East that consists of two divisions. The first division is involved with educational services, which helps Middle Eastern students obtain advanced degrees in their various fields of study. The second division focuses primarily on developing business skills in the work place. This division leads training seminars for private industry and government ministries.

Through the efforts of both divisions, many students and professionals are able to hear how the Gospel translates into the market place. All the Muslims who have come to faith have been contacted through these venues. (PFF Only)

Egypt:
Perspectives
Perspectives on the World Christian Movement has now been translated into Arabic and is being used as a core curriculum at the Cairo Theological Seminary. PFF has helped support this translation, and we are now working with the Presbyterian leaders of Egypt to distribute and use this material throughout Egypt and the Arab world.

Missionaries
God is doing a very special thing in Egypt: not only is the Gospel spreading like wild fire throughout Egypt, but a new mission force is being formed involving many Egyptian Presbyterians who are becoming missionaries throughout the Arab world. PFF helps with the training and sending of these missionaries.

Discipleship and Fellowship
Beneath the radar screen, thousands of inquiring Muslims in Egypt are being discipled by trained leaders, who are often risking their lives to meet with these people in the most clandestine environments. PFF helps with the needs of these trainers and also with the needs of these new gatherings. In addition, similar discipleship and fellowship opportunities are emerging in other Arab countries. (PFF Only)

Kurdish Areas:
Two workers formerly in Germany are moving to live with Kurdish people to improve language skills, understand the culture and religions from the inside, explore ways to better build bridges with the Gospel, and also to scope out possibilities for future work. One worker will be assisting the Iraqi Presbyterian Church with the resettlement of Iraqi Christians who have fled to the Kurdish administered north of Iraq from the violence of the south. The other worker will be involved with an ethnomusicology project to gather, record and notate the newly emerging original Kurdish Christian music to make it available to the growing number of fellowships worldwide. Thank you for your generous support which enables more and more of the 30 million Kurds worldwide to hear about and experience Christ’s love.

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UNITED STATES

United States
Muslim/Christian Relationships and Outreach
PFF is supporting efforts to equip the US church for reaching Muslims in North America through the Insider strategy. Today there are 6 million Muslims in the US and 1 million in Canada; the combined population is predicted to grow to 14 million by the year 2014. This project supports work to set up and train small mission teams across the US and Canada to use the Insider strategy to reach Muslims in their area. (PFF Only)

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GLOBAL

Bible Translation for Unreached People Groups
This effort is to provide translation of the Bible for people who do not have a viable church presence in their culture. Your gifts can bring God’s word to people who have never had it in their own language.

Oral Gospel Communication
A large percentage of the world’s people, and an even larger percentage of the Unreached People Groups of the world, are oral communicators. They may have some literacy, but they still prefer to share their history and important cultural values through oral methods. In some cases they have literacy in near languages but their heart language has not been reduced to written form. They may not have scripture in their own language. Even where some literacy exits, oral methods are more effective. Oral Methods of communication include songs, drama, storytelling, face-to-face discussion and participatory learning, proverbs, chants and so on.

The Oral Gospel Communication Project provides opportunities to train Christian leaders among unreached people groups in how to orally communicate the Biblical worldview and the gospel option for evangelism and discipleship purposes.

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