You Don't Need a Passport to Reach the Nations

[Squire Robertsson]

From Proclaim and Defend
You Don’t Need a Passport to Reach the Nations

 

[Marooncat79]

The place that I work has at least 9-10 languages groups where there were at least 5 native speakers of that language on the floor

English
Spanish
Italian
French
German
Russian
Portuguese
Vietnamese
Arabic
Romanian?

hmm, I’m thinking I am missing a couple

but hopefully, you get the point

that’s out of about 1,000 employees

 

[JonC]

My son is realizing this. He has been in LA working with a ministry outreach for the past 5 weeks.

 

[Marooncat79]

There is also Zoom etc

 

[John of Japan]

There are many refugee people groups in the US also. Our church is reaching out to the Rohingya people in the Milwaukee area, refugees from Myanmar, where they are persecuted; there are 1000s of them. They don't have a Bible in their language, so we've started a translation effort. They are Muslims, but we look for a harvest of souls someday.

 

[Marooncat79]

Phenominal

 

[Marooncat79]

Ok my update

I was loosely working w a guy from Nepal, it is now more robust

He is planting a Nepalese Church in Baltimore MD

he was a Hindu Priest, when God saved him and called him to ministry

now I need everyone else’s update

thanks

 

[Marooncat79]

Anxiously anticipating another answer

 

[Dr. Bob]

Anxiously anticipating another answer

When teaching in Owatonna, Minnesota, we had a huge influx of Somalians into that (and other) small towns. I had my students challenged to try to get to know some and become friends/witness to them. Found THAT group to be extremely insulated, not opening up to normal interaction with our students. Part of this was the mentality that they did not HAVE to assimilate as previous generations of immigrants, trying to learn language, adopt customs, join in activities with us "Minnesota nice" people.

Now retired in Wisconsin and finding the first-generation Hispanic moving into areas that were traditionally German in the older generation. Our church has a large ESL program, and such a blessing to see the missional outreach.

 

[Dr. Bob]

Talked with our city officials this afternoon after reading this thread.
97%+ were born in USA
75%+ were Wisconsin natives!
3% are foreign born of which about half are naturalized citizens and half not citizens