REMOTE Indigenous Outreach!

Home Missionary Duan Díaz and Bro. Nilton Vera sharing the Gospel in a very remote and primitive Machiguenga village – just a ravine away from the feared Mashco-Piro tribe!

Home Missionary Duan Díaz and Bro. Nilton Vera, one of our Bible School instructors, traveled more than ten hours by canoe to a very remote village of the Machiguengas, where one of the residents had invited them to come and share the Gospel.

Accompanied by two men known to the villagers, they traveled ten hours by river to reach the village, negotiating repeated blockades placed there to keep outsiders away. This is an extremely remote area, and the fact that the villagers were clothed was nearly the only nod to the outside world.

When they reached their destination, they found a handful of men waiting ––and no women; the women had all been ordered into one of the small huts. The brethren observed them peeking out and straining to hear as they shared the Word with the men. Finally, Bro. Nilton asked the men to allow the ladies to come out and join them. In his words, it was as if someone had released a cloud of balloons: the women and girls came streaming out to hear the Gospel!

Afterwards, the brethren learned that they could not have entered this area without invitation: they were just across a ravine from the feared Mashco-Piro tribe! The Mashco-Piros are "an indigenous tribe of nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit the remote regions of the Amazon rainforest" (Wikipedia).are the largest known, un-contacted tribe left on the planet (www.iflscience.com), and they are fiercely protective of their territory, to the point of killing intruders.

God was with His servants, and the Gospel was shared for the first time!