"How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!"
Romans 10:14

Called to the Unreached…

Today, worldwide, there is a great need for more workers to be sent into the harvest fields! The population of the world today is 6.57 billion and out of this 2.60 billion people are unreached! This means that out of 15, 969 people groups on the Earth today, 6,429 people groups are unreached: they are without an indigenous community of believing Christians that are able to evangelize to their people group. This is why we as YWAM Perth desire to mobilize as many Christians as possible to be a part of the Great Commission to present the whole gospel for the whole man throughout the whole world.

Our Call to the Indian Ocean Gateway

Within these 6, 429 unreached people groups of the world, approximately 5,500 of them are within what is known as the Indian Ocean Gateway (IOG). The IOG is an arch of nations that stretches all the way from South Africa up to the Middle East, across Asia and the Subcontinent, and down through Indonesia and into Western Australia. There are 75 nations of the Indian Ocean Gateway that can be broken down into zones that contain the poorest, most unreached and neediest peoples in our world today. To be specific, there are just fewer than 2.15 billion unreached people within the Indian Ocean Gateway. This represents 82.57% of the world's unreached, or least reached, people! As a base, the Indian Ocean Gateway has been the call of God to us as a base. As Perth sits on the rim of the Indian Ocean Gateway, these are the nations that we have focused sending workers into.

The Vision of 97 Nations

Recently God has been speaking to us as a base and placing a new vision within us for over the next year! This new vision started one night at a Mission Awareness Night when God spoke to several individuals on base all about the same thing: traveling through all the nations of Africa! Through much prayer this is the vision that has evolved and that God has developed: over the next 12 months we will be going to all the nations of the Indian Ocean Gateway as well as to all of Africa to set foot in every nation and claim the ground for God! This comprises a total of 97 nations which have been divided into 7 regions. They will be traveled to by various schools and ministries in clusters of 3 or 4 nations at a time over the next year. Why are we going? To fulfill the call of God to this base of reaching the nations of the Indian Ocean Gateway, to bring God's presence into these 97 nations, to be able to focus more specifically in prayer on the nations God has called us to and to break the ground for future ministries and outreaches to these 97 nations!

And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation"
Mark 16:15

What are we going to do?

Worship! Exalting God and praising Him over the nations opens up the gates and brings His presence into every corner of the Earth! We will be having a strong prayer focus to see breakthrough happen in each of the 97 nations. As well as doing evangelism, making God known and seeing His truth brought into all the world! We will also be linking up with the local body of Christ to partner with them and see them mobilized to make change in their own nation.

Through stepping foot into these 97 nations, we believe that as a base we will get God's heart for the nations, what He sees when He looks upon the nations of the earth. Through this we feel God is going to release greater vision for the future, more ways in which to make a difference for Him! As well we will be able to see how we can partner with God in prayer for each of these 97 nations, gaining even more of God's heart in the place of prayer. And of course, salvations! God's desire is to make Himself known to His people and we believe that He is going to in a mighty way! Nothing is impossible for God, with Him all things are possible!

And as you go, preach, saying, 'The kingdom of heaven is at hand.' Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
Matthew 10:7-8