A recent publication of The Commission magazine had this as its front page headliner. The area in question: South America. (You can view the article and a nice slideshow here.)

The Amazon Basin is home to more than 400 distinct people groups, and 270 of them have no missionaries living among them. One of our own couples, though, is working to shrink that number. The Gilpin family – Matthew, Tara, Lydia, Samuel, and one on the way! – are working among the Eastern Amazonian peoples as lay leadership trainers. As we have committed to send some peanut butter and taco sauce their way, may we commit all the more to pray for them. Friends, I can assure you that the Gilpin family can receive no greater Christmas gift from our class than the sustained prayer of faithful brothers and sisters. Let’s commit together to lift them up to our Father – there is no shipping fee or weight limit!

Colossians 4:2-3 “Devote yourselves to prayer…praying…that God will open up to [them] a door for the word, so that [they] may speak forth the mystery of Christ.”

Ephesians 6:19 pray that the Gilpin’s would “make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.”

~adam graig for the Missions Team