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Arabic People Groups
There are at least 10,000 Arabic speaking people in the metro area. The greatest recent growth is Iraq immigrants who are focused in the area just east of the KU Med Center Zip code 64108 (approx 1230 “other”) and in the North East area, the zip codes 64123, 64124 64126, 64127.
- There is one Presbyterian Arabic Church that currently worships on Saturday evenings at Grace Presbyterian on College Blvd. in Overland Park.
The Association is considering a strategy for this “next best place to start” that would involve three approaches.
- Connecting with the Presbyterian Church to learn how we might work with them in the areas of Kansas City, MO listed above.
- Provide extensive and detail equipping to our churches/leaders about how to “talk to your Arabic neighbors”
- Working with IMB/ St Louis Baptist Assoc and KNCSB we will seek to begin to cultivate ministry among the recent immigrants.
Your own church field
Within our city and towns and communities of Blue River-Kansas City Baptist Association are “hidden” pockets of unreached people. These include the East Indian family in your subdivision, the Arab young man at your near by gas station, the Hindu gentlemen who takes his walk past your house every morning.
Everywhere we look, IF we will just look, we will find people all around us who were born in another country and are completely immersed in another culture. These are people that God has brought to our very door step.
We need to inform our people about the need to connect with them, and we need to equip our people to engage them. There are a wide variety of strategies with which we can involve our people/churches to touch the lives of these unreached people groups.
No one has better resources for connecting to these people than do Southern Baptist, and our Association needs a comprehensive strategy to connect our churches/people with these resources.
This is a “next best place” that can involve nearly everyone in our Association.