There are thousands of un-reached peoples throughout South America.  In order to reach them in the most effective way the International Mission Board has implemented a strategy called REAP which stands for Rapid Entry Advance Plan.

The objective of this strategy is to establish indigenous, self-sufficient church planting churches among a particular micro-people* group or population segment (mpg/popseg) by recruiting, training and mobilizing U.S. churches to be “the missionary”.

The ultimate goal of the REAP strategy is a church planting movement**.  It is the aim of the REAP strategy to plant healthy, growing, and reproducing churches that look like that culture and that will have the ability to carry on unhindered with the absence of an U.S mission presence. 

The REAP strategy calls for commitment on the part of stateside believers.  That's where you come in!  There is so much work to be done and so few workers!!  

In Peru REAP has two teams serving simultaneously to make a difference among the un-reached.  One serves in the northern half of the country (REAP North) and another which is serving in southern Peru as well as in Bolivia, and soon to be in northern Chile and northern Argentina (REAP South).

*a people group is a homogeneous group of individuals, families, and clans sharing a common language and sense of ethnic identity.  A micro people group is one with a population under 25,000.

**a rapid and multiplicative increase of indigenous churches planting churches within a given people group or population segment