A young woman at the Bible Institute of Los Angeles attended an event at her church where various names of unreached peoples (people where less than 1% of the people are faithful believers in Christ) had been written on slips of paper and posted on a wall of prayer. People were challenged to take a slip and adopt in prayer whatever people group was on the piece of paper. Moved by the challenge she took a piece of paper from the wall and opened it. Inside was written “the Jat people.” Then she went to another section of the wall and took another piece of paper. When she opened it inside it, once more, was written, “the Jat people.”

Satisfied that God was leading her she committed to pray regularly for the Jat people, that God’s Holy Spirit would move amongst them, and that God would send laborers to minister among them, despite knowing little more about them than their name.

Two years later she joined a mission trip to India and began to share the gospel from village to village, but it was discouraging as they saw little if any fruit from their work. After a good while they came to a village and in the same way shared their message as they had before. This time, however, the chief of the village came to the team and said, “We have been moved by your message about Jesus. I and my whole village have chosen to give our lives to Jesus Christ.”

Upon asking more about the people and their particular name, you will perhaps not be surprised to find out that the chief replied, “We are the Jat people.”

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Chris Jones is the Global Outreach Director at New Hope Church. He longs for the unreached people of the world to experience the life-changing love of God and for people at New Hope Church to find fullness of joy by obeying the Great Commission.