Reaches Unreached People Groups

Reaching the unreached with the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a nonnegotiable requisite for World Mission Centre. That being the case, the Live School was specifically designed to train people to reach unreached people groups.

The first School in 2000 trained 51 candidates who became the leaders of 34 teams made up of a total of 483 short-term missionaries sent by World Mission Centre to reach and plant churches among the 100 Least Reached People Groups in the 21 countries of Southern Africa.

Some of the people groups to whom those students ministered live in areas difficult to access, others are isolated and reclusive, while many hold world views steeped in animism and Islam.

Despite the hardships during their months in the field, students saw extraordinary breakthroughs in healing, deliverance and salvation among those they were sent to reach with the Gospel.

Breakthroughs also came through acts of kindness, such as digging water wells, and plowing and planting a field with corn; sometimes, it was a power showdown with the demonic.

In everything, it was the Holy Spirit who worked in and through those students “immeasurably more than all we [could] ask or imagine” [Eph. 3:20]. By the end of that one outreach phase, 33 least reached and unreached had the beginnings of a church for the first time in history.

In subsequent Live Schools, the curriculum has been tested and tried. Repeatedly, the training has produced quality graduates with the passion, drive and will to reach unreached peoples and able to manage the harshest of situations.

Today, there are Live Schools across Southern Africa, with more starting in India, the Ukraine and the Middle East/North Africa region.

These new schools are in areas where the local church does not have easy access to mission/leadership training and yet is relatively close to unreached people groups, sharing a language and familiar with the culture.

Because the training takes place where they live, at the socio-economic level of the society in which they live, those they are trying to reach do not perceive them as outsiders, and outside financially support is less needed.

Live Schools – LIVE! The Nantempo of Mozambique – Predominantly Muslim, this formerly unreached people group had no Christian testimony or Scripture among them until 2000, when students from the Swaziland Live School did the outreach phase of their training among them. Although they encountered much opposition, prayer and friendship evangelism proved unstoppable and, by the end of 2000, there were the beginnings of a church, with a Mozambican pastor coming alongside to care for it. At the end of 2007, there were at least five churches amongst the Nantempo and a steel church building has been constructed.