God Loves Yadav

In the beginning... the testimony of a European Yadav Strategy Coordinator:

In the last three months of the year 2000 I did my SOFM (School of Frontier Mission) in the Netherlands (Europe). The leadership knew God called me to minister in India. They challenged me from the first day to seek God and to hear from Him for one specific people group in India. India has about 2500 people groups. What a challenge!

Focusing on one people group will create the opportunity to have a more effective ministry. So I started to pray. I asked God: “What is the people group you want me to work among?”

I asked someone, by e-mail, to send me some information about the people groups living on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands because God spoke some months before to me about these Islands. He wrote me back and gave me the names and numbers of the 10 largest people groups living there. I thought: “This are just names and numbers, what can I do with that?” I wanted to have more information about their needs. When I copied the names and numbers down on a small sheet of paper and looked at it, it was like one name jumped out, the Yadav. The Yadav had 10,400 people living on the Andamans.

Was this God speaking to me?

I didn’t share this experience with anyone else. One month later, two hours before the end of the school, I met someone who had served in India for several years. At once I told him: ”I know the people group I will work among.” And He asked me: “Which one?”

When he heard that it was the Yadav he was very excited and asked me to come to his office. He had been praying for the Yadav and prepared a brochure about them in Bihar. He was trying to raise prayer support and wanted to challenge people to go and work among them. He said: ”I have prayed for about 5 years but still nobody is working among them.” I said: “I will go and do.”

This was so divine, God spoke, yes this was really God! Meeting someone in Europe who knows about a specific people group in India is rare. Yet, meeting someone in Europe who prayed for several years for the same people group that God had just spoke to me about is divine.

I started doing research and found out that the Yadav don’t only live on the Andaman Islands. They also live throughout India and the surrounding nations. With not only 10,400 people but more than 60 million people. This makes them one of the largest people groups of the world!

Today, many years later, I’m still praying and speaking to people about the needs and opportunities among the Yadav people. The Yadav are very strategic, God knew and that’s why He spoke!

If God speaks there is a divine reason for it and that’s why we focus on the Yadav people group. 

We have the choice to obey or to disobey Gods voice, to go or to send.