The missionaries living in Iquitos that we will be working with, Jeremy and Crystal Nelson, shared some interesting facts about the indigenous people. Iquitos is the largest city in the world completely without road access. The surrounded Yagua tribes consist of roughly 3,000-4,000 people scattered in various small communities across the Amazon Basin. The remoteness of these regions has had an incredibly isolating effect on these people. In fact, they call themselves the forgotten people, forgotten by man and forgotten by God. Only recently have many of these tribes been identified and efforts made to reach them with the gospel of Christ. Please pray for the Yagua, for the work of Jeremy and Crystal Nelson, and that the Lord will continue to break down physical, emotional, and spiritual walls of isolation in the jungles of Peru by the hope and truth of the gospel!
“But Zion said, ‘The LORD has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.’ ‘Can a women forget her nursing child and have no compassion on the son of her womb? Even these may forget, but I will not forget you. Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; your walls are continually before Me.” Isaiah 49:16
