Ministry in Honduras 

2010 Mission Trip - La Campa, Honduras by Eugene Ziebach November 25, 2010 (Excerpt from my 2010 Trip Journal.)

Often, we who go on mission trips are asked by others, "Why do you go? Are there not enough people at home who need to hear the Gospel? Why don't you take care of home first?" These are good questions. However in Piper's book, his response to this is: It may be, and I tend to believe, that God has occasion for us to leave reached people in order to work among the unreached. As Piper suggests, "the task of missions may not be merely to win as many individuals as possible from the most responsive people groups, but rather to win individuals from all the people groups of the world." So we are not really talking about maximizing numbers, but instead helping ensure every group be reached with the testimony of Christ and that "a people be called out for His name from all the nations."

Brother Bradley preached from Paul's writing in the Book of Philippians, but we know from Paul's other writings that he was grasped by the vision of unreached peoples. One can be certain his idea of being a missionary was not merely the winning of more and more people to Christ, but instead reaching more peoples or nations. This was Paul's vision as a pioneer missionary.

Piper furthers his premise by offering scripture from the Apostle John's writing in Revelation 5, whereby the task of the church is "to gather the ransomed from all peoples, languages, tribes, and nations." In John 11:52, the apostle states that "the children of God will be found as widely scattered as there are peoples of the earth."