The Endless Journey: The Badjao People: Forsaken but not God Forsaken

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

The Badjao People: Forsaken but not God Forsaken

After taking my first mission trip to Masindi, Uganda in September 2010, God led me to enroll in the Institute for World Ministry missionary training program. The classes started in January and as part of the requirement for the course we were asked to research an unreached people group. An unreached people group is a group of people in which there is no indigenous community of Christians with sufficient numbers and resources to evangelize this people group. In the world, there are 6,871 unreached people groups.

As I was researching many different people groups on the Joshua Project website, I found the Badjou people who are scattered throughout the Sulu Archipelago of the Philippines. The Badjou people are a very unique people. One characteristic that really drew me to this particular group was that they are considered "sea gypsies" because by tradition they are sea nomads. The photo that I have chosen in this post is a representation of the Badjao's shelter.

Keep up with the story of the Badjao people as I dig deeper into their ways of life, culture, religion, and determine the best way to reach such a unique indigenous unreached people group!

1 comment:

Toyin O.February 20, 2011 at 7:04 AM
Wow, I can not believe there are still people that have yet to hear the gospel. This is amazing, they sound like beautiful people. God bless all your endeavours:)
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1040 facts:

The 10/40 Window is the rectangular area of North Africa, the Middle East and Asia approximately between 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north latitude. The 10/40 Window is often called "The Resistant Belt" and includes the majority of the world's Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists. An estimated 2.66 billion individuals live in approximately 5,823 unreached people groups are in the 10/40 Window. The 10/40 Window also contains the largest unreached peoples over one million.The 10/40 Window has several important considerations: first, the historical and Biblical significance; second, the least evangelized countries; third, the unreached people groups and cities; fourth, the dominance of three religious blocs; fifth, the preponderance of the poor; sixth, the strongholds within the 10/40 Window. (Joshua project).

Acts 1:8
But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
John 3:16-17
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.