Sheer masses of humanity. More people crammed into a region than one would think to even be possible. This is the scene that faced Global University personnel Joe and Nadine Jones on their recent trip co-sponsored by Light for the Lost, Global University, and Assemblies of God World Missions to Bangladesh, India, and Nepal.

For many people who think of Global University, their immediate picture is of an education institution teaching and training adults for ministry. Yet there is another side of Global University, one that is not often reported. It involves children throughout the world and their families. Obviously, this is a people group with a special affinity to Light for the Lost.

An incredible tool available to the church today is a powerful course written by veteran worker Louise Jeter Walker a number of years ago. Entitled The Great Questions of Life and underwritten by Light for the Lost, it has been distributed to millions. While in Bangladesh and India, the Joneses were able to see first-hand these tools being distributed by local believers to men and women, boys and girls.

Beggars sitting in the gutters, with people streaming by them all day long, were given their own copies. Elderly widows, crouched in pitiful shacks barely the size of an average American closet, received their own copies. Fathers and mothers, often holding little children, received this tremendous witnessing tool. Only eternity will reveal the numbers who were added to the Kingdom as a result.

Worker Larry Smith took the Joneses to a balcony overlooking a major thoroughfare and extended his arm over the teeming masses of people below. Larry made an incredible statement. He pointed out that we were working for every person in the crowd below, and that if we should quit, the effects would be disastrous. This is true for countless areas of the world.

But what's so special about this? Don't people witness to their neighbors every day? Yes, that is certainly our mandate from Jesus himself. But Global University, in partnership with Light for the Lost, is demonstrating day after day the foundational principle of missions-that of teaching believers overseas to reach their own people. We refer to this as the indigenous principle. It's bedrock of Global University's mission. As a result, people in the finest cities in the world and those in slums around the globe are being reached and taught the precious truths of the gospel.