This book tells the story of how a U.S. church adopted an unreached Buddhist ethnic people group located deep inside mainland C*hina. The church organized an amazingly successful multi-agency Christian outreach to them and followed through with church planting among them that worked and got it done.
The key person who got this done was a church lay person, Joy Crawford, who became a living legend. Joy proposed this project, and then personally organized it, led it and ultimately drove it to success. The book shows how God prepared her to do this, through her early life and education that prepared her to be an outgoing people person who connected effectively with her colleagues and convince them to fall in behind her to successfully accomplish her vision for the project.
The significance of the book is that it shows how a single American church can reach out to adopt an unreached ethnic people group located in a third world country like C*hina and get great results. The U.S. Center for World Mission has counted over 24,000 people groups in the world, many of them completely unreached for Christ. Jesus gave this Great Commission to His disciples (Matthew 28:18-20): All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you, even to the end of the age.
The word translated nations, is ethnos, meaning an unreached ethnic people group.
So, as Christians, how do we do that? The significance of this book is that it shows how one American church accomplished that very thing successfully, with a lay church person, Joy Crawford, leading the project as a missions strategy coordinator, working simultaneously with multiple mission agencies to get it done together.
So, the book presents a model, an example of how it can be done, now, in the twenty-first century, working as a church.
The book goes on to continue Joy’s entire life story, including the way her life story ended,