Orality Journal Volume 3, Number 1, 2014 | Page 21

Telling God’s Story to the Sweater People

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Telling God’s Story to the Sweater People
Amber Alexander

Amber Alexander has lived overseas and is currently living in a city in
United States. Amber, a pseudonym for security purposes, together with
her husband intentionally serves difficult to reach high caste Indians living
in the USA.

I

n September 2004, my teammate
and I boarded a plane headed
from the U.S. to an unreached
people group living in the
Himalaya Mountains.
Due to the sensitivity
of this area, and the
extreme violence that
both workers and new
believers have faced, I
will refer to this people
group as the Sweater
People and testify how
I saw God’s story touch
the hearts of these
people.

of the organizations. There were
several other One Story teams
who trained with us and were
sent out to other unreached people

Our project was called One
Story. We were encouraged and
equipped to do this task by the
International Mission Board,
YWAM, Campus Crusade for
Christ, Wycliffe, and Trans World
Radio. We were trained before
we went to our people group
and trained every few months in
church planting, translation, team
building, language learning, and
audio recording, among other
things. We also received ongoing
mentoring and inspiration by each

groups. These teams were a great
encouragement to us as we faced
difficulties along the way.
Our goal was to live among the
Sweater People, learn about them,
and love them. We were to find
a person of peace who would
help us develop a Chronological
Bible Story Set which would be
filled with stories that would both
touch the hearts and needs of the
Sweater People and give them a
biblical worldview.