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I just want to share this with you whoever is seeing it, it is a news letter from Paul Washer and I just want us to have a fresh update on what is going on the other side of the world.

I must say that I was devastated. Although I have worked in missions for over twenty years, I have never seen anything like the 10/40 window. For those of you not familiar with such terminology, the 10/40 window is a rectangular area of North Africa, the Middle East and Asia approximately between 10 degrees North and 40 degrees North latitude. It is often called "The Resistant Belt" and includes the majority of the world's Muslims, Hindus, and Buddhists. An estimated 4.43 billion individuals residing in approximately 8,808 distinct people groups are in the 10/40 Window. We only need to read the following facts, taken from the Joshua Project, to be brought to weeping:

• Of the 16,562 people groups by country, 6847 are still considered unreached, totaling 2,772,136,000 individuals.

• Of these 6,847 groups, 5,902 are in 10/40 Window countries. That means 86% of all unreached people groups are in the 10/40 Window.

• An estimated 2.69 billion individuals living in approximately 5,902 unreached people groups are in the 10/40 Window.

• The 10/40 Window contains the largest unreached people groups over one million.

• The 10/40 Window contains the overwhelming majority of the world's least evangelized megacities -- that is those with a population of more than one million. The top 50 least evangelized megacities are all in the 10/40 Window!

• The 10/40 Window contains four of the world's dominant religious blocs. The majority of the followers of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, as well as the Non-Religious bloc lives within the 10/40 Window.

• The 10/40 Window is home to the majority of the world's poor. Of the poorest of the poor, more than eight out of ten live in the 10/40 Window. On average, they exist on less than a few hundred dollars per person per year. There is a remarkable overlap between the poorest countries of the world and those that are least evangelized.

The 10/40 Window includes numerous spiritual strongholds. The billions of people who live there have suffered not only the ravages of poverty and disease, but have also been kept from the transforming power of the Gospel. They are poignant examples of the truth expressed in II Corinthians 4:4, which states, "The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God."

Who can read this and say it is the will of God? Who would dare say they know His secret counsels of which He has not spoken in His Word? He has told us, even commanded us, to go! He has made it clear that we are to preach the Gospel to EVERY CREATURE, but our response has been:

“I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused… I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to try them out; please consider me excused…. I have married a wife, and for that reason I cannot come” (Luke 14:18-20).

Brothers and sisters, let it not be said of us that we tarried before the greatest open door the Church has ever seen to reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It can be done! It must be done!

Upon returning from the 10/40 window, the staff at HeartCry set themselves to praying for an advance. There were forty missionaries who were approved and ready, but the funds were needed. We kept the matter concealed among us and made our requests known to God. After two months of feeble praying and little faith, the Lord has done it! One family in the U.S., who desires to remain anonymous, contacted HeartCry with the burden to live the faith they professed, and to know the joy of disinterest in and sacrifice of self. Without any communication between us, they had been praying about supporting missionaries in India with the exact amount that was needed to support the forty new missionaries! Praise the Lord! God has moved them to support the whole group of men! We will soon be traveling to India to make the final preparations for this new advance.

Thus, we remain a mixture of joy and burden. Joy for the forty and all that God may accomplish through them; and yet burden for the remaining need. What are forty new men in light of four billion lost people! Some will say that we are seeking to put out a forest fire of gigantic proportions with an eye dropper. Though this is true, we have learned that there is no limit to what the Lord can do with the smallest and weakest of men and endeavors. Pray that God will continue to teach them sound doctrine through their study of God’s Word. Pray that they will be filled with the Holy Spirit and great power. Pray that the fruit of the Spirit will be manifest in their lives. Pray that the mighty walls of this spiritual Jericho might fall before the Gospel of Jesus Christ! And pray that the Lord will send countless more laborers into His harvest, so that every creature on the face of this earth might hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ in our generation.