By Michael Smiel, US Office

As the new year approaches, we reached out to SEND missionaries  and personnel around the world to see what they are excited about for 2023. Here are five exciting hopes SEND has for 2023 and the projects related to them!

"We are excited to see a new generation passionate to leverage their lives for the glory of God and the good of others.” 

God is calling the next generation to activate their passion in making the goodness of Jesus known to those who have yet to hear. The remaining unreached people in the world are unreached for a reason—they are hard to get to! But we must not shrink away from these challenges! Now is the time to invest in the technology, the systems, and the people needed to recruit, train, and support new missionaries serving in difficult places.  

Learn more about our work preparing a new generation to go. 
 

“We look forward to a year of firsts as we mobilize workers from all over the globe!” 

We are looking forward to several "firsts" in 2023! We hope to have our first global member sent through a Central American partner for Muslim outreach in Asia, our first ever Mexican team members joining SEND, and our first ever ministry partnership with a church in Honduras.  

Mobilizing God's people to engage the unreached happens in the context of relationships. We are looking forward to 2023 as a time for us to see the fruit from the global connections SEND has been developing. We view these global members as pioneers, opening pathways to the unreached! 

Learn more about our work expediting global workers. 
 

“We are excited to begin engaging a new unreached people group with the gospel in Toronto!” 

This group is very unreached and doesn't have anyone working with it that we know of. Our hope is that as this group is reached with the gospel, they will be able to evangelize their own people, here and abroad, and begin to reach out to others. We are looking forward to seeing them in the Kingdom of God!  

Learn more about our work connecting refugee communities with Christ. 

“Our dream is to see healthy families of faith initiating disciples making disciples.” 

 
With our backyard gardening project spreading through the region in areas of Southeast Asia we currently don’t serve, we are excited that we can be the presence of Jesus in communities that do not know him. Can you imagine study groups starting among religious leaders? We are excited about that possibility as God uses our presence in the community to open doors to share the gospel! 

Learn more about our work building trust to share Christ in “Paradise”. 

“We look at a city of 5 or 10 million people and think how are all those people going to hear the Gospel? With digital engagement this is now conceivable.” 

Our missionaries have long known that to share Christ, they need to go where the people go. These days, the people go online--and we believe Jesus can meet them there. Just think about thousands reading about Jesus for the first time or simply clicking a link to get a Bible. Some of our missionaries have already completed digital engagement training and are excited to see how God will use this tool to expand our ministries and contact among the unreached. 

Learn more about our work using media to spark gospel movements. 

Maybe this is the year that you take your next step in missions. Here are three ways that you can get involved: Go, Give, and Pray!