Mateo Echeverry

Since Jesus walked the earth over 2000 years ago He gave his followers a simple, yet monumental task. Before he ascended back to heaven he told us to “make disciples of all the nations” (Matt. 28:19) and He said that He would not return again until “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.” (Matt. 24:14). Today, the task remaining is still huge. About 40% of the world’s population has yet to hear about Jesus, and of the approximate 11,500 people groups in the world, Global Frontier Missions estimates that 6,900 of them are still unreached. A people group is considered “Unreached” if <2% of it’s population is evangelical Christian.

Most of these people live in areas that are either very difficult to reach, or areas where people are very hostile to the Gospel. This, along with all of the distractions that the Devil throws at the Church, has led to us being far from finished with the task that Jesus gave us to do. The church has waited long enough to finish what Jesus commanded us to do, we must finish the task.

God has provided a unique opportunity in our time. Due to us not going to the last peoples in the last places, God has decided to take them out of these areas and has brought UPG’s into areas of the world where we have religious freedom and total freedom of speech. Currently, Germany is home to 3.4M people from UPG’s. The church now has the opportunity to reach the last peoples with little risk. We can easily go to Germany, engage people who have come in as refugees, preach the Gospel to them, make disciples, plant churches, and mobilize these people to reach their own people groups!

This is exactly what we plan to do. By God’s grace, our goal is to move to Cologne, Germany, where we will be working to evangelize, disciple, and plant churches amongst refugees. In partnership with Great Commission Europe and Reliant Mission, we will lead a pioneering church planting team geared towards planting simple and reproducible churches that can multiply back to the countries of origin of the refugees. This strategy will allow us to make strides towards the fulfillment of the Great Commission by establishing healthy churches amongst previously Unreached People Groups.