Pastor Hector and the church have formally invited us to join them for a missions conference that they are having in November. The dates are Friday Nov. 27 to Saturday Nov. 28. I will pass out the flyer for this at our next missions meeting, Nov. 8. He sent photos of the guest Speaker, Hermano Cuautemoc Munos. He is a missionary to the indigenous people the huícholes. I have included a link to the Wikipedia page on the Huichol. They are animist or shamanistic. Evangelicals are held with great disdain and the people have rejected Catholicism. Pastor Hector has a real heart for these people and every year takes a group of young people there to evangelize.
I believe that the Huichol people do not have a Bible in their own language and not everyone there speaks Spanish. The Mexican government has hidden the truth about the presence of the MANY indigenous people in Mexico. The need for the Gospel is great. Here is some information from Wycliffe Bible Translators about the Bible in Native tongues:
The worldwide status of Bible translation (2008):
6,909 ...the number of languages spoken in the world today
2,393 ...the number of languages without any of the Bible
200,000,000 ...the number of people who speak the 2,393 languages where translation projects have not yet begun
1,998 ...the number of translation programs currently in progress for languages without adequate Scripture
nearly 80% ...amount of the world’s remaining Bible translation needs that are located in the three areas of greatest need
1,168 ...the number of language communities which have access to the New Testament in their heart language
438 ...the number of language communities which have access to the entire Bible in the language they understand best
6,500,000,000 ...the population of the world
If any of you would like to go to the conference let me know, I will not be able to attend as I have already committed to go and visit my family. Please Pray for Pastor Hector and the church in Hermosillo and for the missions conference in November.
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