Gospel for Asia is a missionary organization that operates a little differently from most I've seen. Rather than training western missionaries to go to unreached peoples and countries, GfA trains and sends native missionaries to reach their own people, primarily in South Asia.
Why native missionaries? Primarily because they are more effective. Rather than learning a new language, moving around the world, and acclimating to a completely new culture and lifestyle -- or trying to maintain a western lifestyle in a new setting -- native missionaries serve in places they know, speaking languages they know within cultures and people groups that they know. Because they live in the same conditions as the people they seek to reach, it costs far less to support them.
Most, in fact, live at a subsistence level. Many face severe persecution, and some pay a heavy cost for their service. But they reach people. Lives are changed. Souls are saved.
GfA has always offered founder K. P. Yohannon's book Revolution in World Missions free of charge. There are numerous other resources available at the GfA website. I'm happy to say that my family has supported a GfA missionary and his family for several years, and I'd encourage all of you to consider doing so as well. It's literally the least we can do for God's Kingdom, after all.
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