Before the Gospel came to the Gumuz people, their lives revolved around revenge, killing, and the worship of the spirits of certain rocks and rivers. Jesus has now won the hearts of some entire Gumuz communities. But the Gumuz people still live with desperate needs—most notably the need for literacy and agricultural development.

Seven Gumuz villages have been reached via chronological Bible storytelling, and several new Gumuz believers were baptized recently. They are being trained to witness to others, using a 90-lesson primer that combines literacy teaching with a clear Gospel presentation. As believers are learning to read, they are also being trained to teach the same skills to others.

Janet Winch is living among the Gumuz to teach them principles of field preparation, home gardens, and milk production. After they prepare fenced fields, vegetable seeds and fruit tree seedlings are made available to them. Steve and Jun Eom from Korea and John and Phyllis Coleman from Canada, along with Ethiopian evangelists, were instrumental in opening doors to the Gumuz people only a few years ago.

Learn more about the Gumuz Evangelism, Literacy and Adult Education Project