How did Reach A Village get started as an organization?

In 2012, Rev. Bob Craft founded Reach A Village (RAV) to partner with indigenous Christians in countries worldwide. Having served as a missionary himself for many years, he recognized that there are places where foreign missionaries cannot go due to political, cultural, or geographical restrictions. Over 1 million villages still have not been reached with the Gospel. Hundreds of thousands of those villages do not have a single believer or even a single Bible.

Through decades of ministry, Rev. Craft has developed strong relationships with national Christian leaders who are eager to train and send local believers into the most remote, unreached villages in their country. But they lack tools, resources, and materials. RAV’s focus is to equip them with the training and materials they need to reach their own people with the Gospel, nurture new believers, and start churches.

What is the mission of Reach A Village?

Reach A Village is called by God to train and equip local believers, enabling them to reach the unreached and bring them into fellowship with Jesus Christ and His Church, through the power of the Holy Spirit. RAV’s U.S. staff and those whom RAV equips worldwide are inspired by Jesus’ words in Mark 1:38 (NIV): “Let us go somewhere else – to the nearby villages – so I can preach there also. That is why I have come."

Our driving force is to finish the Great Commission to go and make disciples of all nations. Thousands of lives and villages are already being transformed with the power of God’s Word!

How does Reach A Village go about reaching villages?

Reach A Village helps train, equip, and mobilize local Christians to go into nearby villages and reach the unreached with the Gospel. These believers interact with people in the community, doing evangelistic outreach. They engage new believers and seekers in discipleship Bible studies. The goal is to establish a new house church in the village within two years.

RAV’s international ministry partners provide mentorship and specialized, hands-on training that includes classroom and field learning. All of these workers receive Bible study materials and a supply of Scriptures. We aim to provide a Bible to everyone who completes the Bible study series. * Please note that Reach A Village ministry partners provide a wide variety of Scripture materials, including New Testaments and Whole Bibles. Our desire is to provide as many new believers as possible with a Bible, as resources allow. Currently, we see many more new believers coming to faith in Jesus Christ than we can provide Bibles for.