Reaching the Unreached

In today’s episode of Develop in the Dark, we listen in to a NewSpring staff gathering where Brad Cooper interviews Ken Katayama, the president and CEO of Crossover Global about reaching unreached people groups with the Good News of Jesus Christ. How can we make a difference in God’s global mission? 

Links and Sources: 

• Ken Katayama’s Information: 
• Follow Ken on Instagram.
• Crossover Global 
• Illuminations, a partner of NewSpring Church, is an alliance of Bible translation partners and resource partners working together to eradicate Bible poverty in this generation. Their goal is to make the Bible accessible to all people by 2033. 
• Vision 2030 is a NewSpring initiative to become debt-free, secure permanent locations for all our NewSpring campuses, and to plant ten autonomous churches by 2030. 
• Crossover Global’s mission- A church planting organization that provides gospel access by planting multiplying churches among unreached people groups. 
• “Gospel Access” is defined as “an indigenous church capable of evangelizing its own people.” 
• Acts 2:42
• To learn more about Global Gospel initiatives, visit the Lausanne Movement.
• Colossians 2:6

Questions: 

• How do you respond when you hear that finishing the Great Commission is an attainable goal in our generation? 
• How can every person play a role in global missions? What part can you play in reaching the unreached with the Gospel? 
• What would it be like to not have access to the Bible? 
• Are there people in your circle of influence who have never heard the Good News? What’s your plan? 
• Why is it important to place evangelized people into faith communities? 
• What does it mean to have a “desperate faith”? How does the persecution of believers across the world challenge our daily practice?