First, they are now beginning to see themselves in a much larger global context. Secondly, the Latin Americans are doing more extensive research on where the unreached people are in their own midst. For very long, Latin America was considered reached because of the pervasiveness of Roman Catholicism. However, it is being discovered the there are many pockets of South and Central America in particular which have never heard the gospel. As well, missiologists are discovering that in many areas Roman Catholicism has been assimilated so heavily with previous traditional worship practices that Christ has all but been lost as the central focus of the Christian faith.
T here are, therefore, many emergent opportunities for frontier work in Latin America.
The Presbyterian Church of Peru is now in the process of organizing a major initiative to reach the Aguaruna for Christ. Copyright 1995-2001 Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship.