About the Ministry
“My goal is to go, reach the unreached, and make disciples,” Tungpi, our partner in Myanmar, said.
About 95% of Myanmar nationals are following a god other than the God of the Bible. The vast majority of them would identify as Buddhist and some would identify with other religions. Out of this number, 84% have no immediate access to the good news about Jesus Christ in their communities.
Tungpi has discovered the hidden blessing from God for evangelism in Myanmar:
“In the early 1800’s the American Missionary Adoniram Judson arrived in Burma. Evangelism was difficult so he began writing gospel booklets. To his joy and surprise, they were very popular with the Burmese people. Later in his career, people requested these books from all over the country. We see the same thing today, especially with The Ancient Path Gospel booklet.”
Tungpi
This desire to read and the curiosity about other ways of thinking has been a main focus of Tungpi’s ministry.
“Gospel booklet distribution is one of the most effective ways to build relationships and open people’s hearts to the Good News of salvation.”
Tungpi has supervised the translation and distribution of The Ancient Path in eight languages. He has developed a network of evangelists, church planters, and pastors all over the country. His home church has planted ten house churches and Tungpi trains and coaches new believers in many parts of this country.
Because of the critical situation in this country, Tungpi is launching an outreach to Burmese people who have fled to a neighboring country.
Ministry Focuses
Meet the Leader: Tungpi
Tungpi has Christian parents who faithfully shared the Word with him from a young age, and Tungpi accepted Christ during childhood. He decided to serve the Lord vocationally after high school, so he pursued a Bachelor’s of Theology degree and a Master’s of Divinity degree. After he graduated with both, he worked at Faith Baptist Theological Seminary (where he received his M. Div) as a professor for a few years.
While Tungpi was serving the Lord at the seminary, he met a man who had a deep burden for lost souls in Myanmar. This man was passionate about spreading the gospel in the fastest, broadest, and most effective way. Tungpi was so motivated by him for spreading the gospel in Myanmar that he joined in, reaching out to lost souls and going to many unreached villages to share the Gospel by showing evangelistic films and distributing “The Ancient Path.”
Eventually Tungpi decided to leave the seminary so that he could do evangelism among unreached people groups full-time. He is still burdened to get “The Ancient Path” translated into the languages of the minority peoples in Myanmar because many of them don’t even have a single book of the Bible or any other Gospel literature.
