She also had to be willing to go where the people lived-a task that her fully recovered body could handle once again by 1944. Her first stop was Mexico where, over the next 10 months, she and a dose friend managed to capture 33 languages. Almost bypassed, save for Ridderhof and her companions thinking about sheep again- something about leaving the entire flock to look for the one that wandered off. The Wakindiga were that one lost sheep. Every Tribe Taking Jesus' words literally about the lone sheep has become part of the core philosophy at Gospel Recordings.
Many missions organizations target the larger unreached people groups.
As for radio, Starling noted that a group generally must number at least a million before a broadcast in a particular language becomes feasible. GR and GRN decided a few years back to build on their well-established work with majority people groups by focusing a significant portion of their energies on groups numbering fewer than 10,000. That's not to say that Starling's group is a lone ranger. Far from it. GR often partners with workers from other mission organizations and area churches to pinpoint language groups and map out a strategy of how to reach them.