People Groups
World Team is a global mission agency working in a growing number of unreached people groups, cities, countries and regions to plant reproducing churches, with the ultimate goal of reaching the unreached of the world.
Below are profiles of many of the countries where we have ministry opportunities. If you don’t find the people group or country you are looking for, please contact us!
Belgium
In Brussels alone, nearly 800,000 Moroccan Muslims live without God’s hope, and the local church of only a few thousand needs international partners to reach them.
Cambodia
Bringing Hope to a Broken People – Cambodia is a land of mighty rivers and monsoons in the rainy season, dry river beds, brittle brush, and parched rice fields in the dry season. It is a land of Buddhist temples, a struggling infrastructure, and a broken people who have little hope for the future.
Cambodia – The Cham
Christian missionary efforts have been sporadic in various locations. It is estimated that a few hundred Cham have decided to follow Jesus, but there are still no churches, and most live in places far away from the nearest missionary. The New Testament is being translated into Cham and is almost complete.
Cameroon
Africa in Miniature – Cameroon has it all. Beautiful mountains, forests, deserts, and broad tropical savannas. Colorful people speaking more than 290 indigenous languages. Big cities, rural villages and small forest camps.
Cameroon – Baka
Who are the Baka? – For the Baka, life centers around survival. As the logging industry changes the rainforest, their traditional lifestyle is harder and harder to maintain. The large game animals have retreated further into the dense forest as the hardwood trees whose fruit and shelter they depend on have been logged out.
Cameroon – Esimbi
People at the End of the Road – Fear is the unifying motivator that holds their communities together; the glue that binds and controls all the individuals of the society. Sadly, it permeates every aspect of their culture.
Cameroon – Kwakum
Hope for the Hopeless – Words that are vital for communicating the Gospel are missing in Kwakum, including grace, gift, and hope. This is as much a cultural phenomenon as it is linguistic. Most of the Kwakum people have never experienced these life-changing realities.
Cameroon – Pol
World Team among the Pol – Not only are the Pol poor in a material sense, but they also have great spiritual need. The Bible has yet to be translated into Pol, and many of the Pol do not read. Thus language often keeps them in spiritual darkness. Because the Pol are without the Bible in their language, World Team is looking for linguists and translators to come develop their language, start literacy programs, and translate the Bible.
Cameroon – The Nizaa
Surrounded and influenced by Muslim people groups, the Nizaa have a history of resisting the gospel. Most would consider themselves Muslim, but many continue to practice African Traditional Religion as well. Scattered among small, remote villages, there is little exposure to the gospel. In fact, no one is engaging the Nizaa with the gospel aside from two evangelists sent out from one Cameroonian denomination and two pastors from another. Today, there are only around 40 Nizaa people who identify as believers in Jesus Christ.
Central Asia – Kyrgyz
There are many such instances of brokenness throughout Central Asia among the Kyrgyz people. These situations, whether because of spiritual oppression, economic depression, or self-inflicted difficulties, need the good news of Jesus Christ. These situations beckon people who are filled with the Holy Spirit and willing to take up their cross, to come with beautiful feet and strive to be a part of God’s solution to the broken realities of the Kyrgyz people.