Pasadena-based Frontier Ventures Announces Central Asia Trek to Spread the Gospel to Nomadic Peoples

Frontier Ventures, a Pasadena-based Christian organization, has announced it is seeking people to help spread the word of the gospel to the nomadic peoples of Central Asia.

The five-week Nomad Truck Venture will see participants travel more than 3,000 miles across Central Asia this summer where they will face the special needs and challenges of sharing Christ among communities always on the move.

Found largely in remote and often difficult-to-access regions of Africa and Asia, the nomads’ unique way of life presents great challenges. The Nomadic Peoples Network (NPN), also a co-trek organizer, has identified 181 nomadic groups—totalling 123 million people—of which only one is known to be reached.

The organization says nomads represent a major priority for frontier missions, as 69 of the world’s 193 nomadic groups have populations of over 100,000, and are more than a third of the world’s unengaged, unreached people.

“We’re looking for people with a calling to those hard-to-reach people groups—adventurers, backpackers, camping enthusiasts,” said Paul Dzubinski, director of the Ralph D. Winter Launch Lab at Frontier Ventures. “We hope that providing them with an opportunity to meet nomads and understand better their life, culture, and spirituality; some might feel led to join the work among them.”

Dzubinski is looking for up to 40 people to take part in one of two legs of the riding and camping “mobile workshop” that will also see participants hike into inaccessible areas to meet with some members of those communities.

The Nomad Truck Venture, the first of its kind, was suggested by NPN founder Malcolm Hunter, who is a long-time collaborator with Frontier Ventures and spent 40 years as a cross-cultural worker in the Sahara desert, working among nomadic unreached groups. Hunter said, “Nomadic people are among the least-reached and least-evangelized groups in the world, but they are open to hearing the message of God’s love. We hope that by getting to experience some of their world, truck venture participants might be inspired to join the work.”

The venture is open to Christians aged 21 and older. Candidates can get more information regarding the trip at nomads@frontierventures.org.