Scattered To be gathered - Ministry to Migrants (ePub)

God is hastening the return of Christ. He is doing that by

making the proclamation of the gospel to people that

hitherto have been locked up in regions that were

considered closed to the Gospel. How is God doing this? He is

doing this by allowing cataclysms all over the world that are

causing massive movement of people from those spots to

other parts of the world. Few years ago, movement of

refugees from some parts of the Middle East to Europe

became a global problem. Migration of people (for whatever

reasons) has become a present day phenomenon that we

cannot avoid talking about. Even in missions missiologists

have come out with a new buzz word: "Diaspora missiology".

This is a new way of thinking. Unreached people can be

reached not only in their home lands but also everywhere

else because many of the unreached people are already

Diaspora people.

Here in Nigeria, people are also moving massively from

the Northwest, North central and Northeast to the South in

large numbers. Most of these people are not migrating as

refugees, though some are. The majority are moving

because of normal human migrations. This movement of

northern people to the South did not start today; it has been

there for ages. Maybe we are just awakening to this reality or

it is that the momentum has greatly increased in recent time.