At the end of June, we were blessed by a visit from Williams Yindi, who founded Unreached Peoples Mission (UPM). Williams is responsible for the planting of over 275 rural churches across a country that is twice the size of California. Williams declared that his vision for UPM is to take the Good News to every tribe in Tanzania, specifically in the bush areas where many missionaries do not go. He has aspirations of getting many more Solar Media Centers for other rural churches he has already planted, many of which face the same obstacles to their ministry as these four churches.
Founded in 1991, UPM is planting churches among rural tribal groups in Tanzania. They support 154 full-time missionaries and train many more in their six-month Discipleship Mission Training School. UPM also reaches out to the unsaved poor by offering instruction in eight different vocational skills that can be used to provide for their needy families.