1991 - Focusing the work

Recruiting missionaries for the target peoples

In 1991, People International again went through a period of sharpening its vision and focusing its church planting work. With all the political changes taking place in Central Asia, and with opportunities opening up for "tentmaker"-type missionaries to go and live and work in these countries, it was decided to prayerfully concentrate most of the mission’s efforts on placing long-term missionaries on the various fields throughout Central Asia and the Turkic world. The former emphases of educating the Western church about Islam and facilitating work among displaced Central Asian Muslims in the West were recognised to be draining the limited resources from this unprecedented opportunity for ministry to the millions of totally unreached Muslims. The target area was to be the broad area known as Central Asia—Turkey in the West to North-West China in the East, Tatarstan in the North to Northern Pakistan in the South.

People International is fully committed to recruiting long-term missionaries who move into the homelands of our target peoples, equipping, training, and enabling these missionaries for effective ministry, cultivating relationships among the Muslim peoples, and ultimately seeing the establishment of Christ’s church among these unreached Central Asian Muslims.