Have you ever wondered what people group has the least access to the gospel?
The Sentinelese may be the greatest missions challenge anywhere! The Sentinelese are considered the remotest people in the world. The Sentinelese are probably the people of the world most cut off from the gospel and hearing the good news of Jesus Christ.
They are a Nigrito tribe with a population of 250 and inhabit the remote North Sentinel Island situated to the west of Port Blair on the Andaman Islands. They do not interact with anyone outside of their Sentinelese tribe.
No one is permitted to go onto the North Sentinelese Island. Sentinelese speak their own language that is called Sentinelese. This language is not understood by anyone outside the island and they do not understand any other languages. Because of their geographical closeness to other Negritos, their language is considered to be member of the Andamanese family of languages. Very little is known about their life style and culture.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is Union territory of India, famous for the exotic wildlife, coral reefs and remote tribals which are considered among the most backward tribes in the world. Andaman and Nicobar consist of 572 Islands East of Madras extending north to Burma and South to Indonesia.
There are about 30 islands, in Andaman, which are inhabited. During the British rule, convicts (freedom fighters) from the Indian mainland were deported to the islands as a form of punishment. There are at least 26 Main Indian languages and unique tribal languages that have as many as 1,400 distinct dialects.
Foreigners require a permit to visit the Andaman. A 30-day permit is granted on arrival at Port Blair (either by air or sea). Much of the archipelago remains off limits to foreigners even with the permit. Jet airways have daily flights to and from Andaman Islands from Chennai during the tourist season, which begins in October and ends in May.
Many feared this tribe was wiped out December 26, 2004 during the Tsunami. An Indian coastguard helicopter flew low over Sentinel Island and confirmed the tribe survived. They may have survived the devastation by using age-old early warning systems of noticing changes in the behavior of wildlife and ran to high ground for safety.
Pray for the Sentinelese to know the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Mark 11:17 Jesus taught them, “My house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples” (ethnos).
I speak for the whole world when I say Christians are on a mission to destroy other cultures and brain wash them into believe what the Christian beliefs which is ridiculous. If a god wanted the whole world to follow him then he should let those people know not fellow human beings who think that they are right.
Wow. This site is sickening. What makes you think these people—or other remote tribes—need whatever it is you are attempting to instill upon them? They’ve lived on that island for 60,000 years. Well before whatever drivel you’re spewing was invented. And to be clear, they are not backwards. They’re an ancient tribe. You wouldn’t dare describe Jesus as backwards would you?
Not directed towards you D.T. Im actually on your side.
amen
PRAISE THE LORD
could you clarify something for me? How is spreading the gospel brain washing when one of the fundamental principals of Christianity is the freedom to choose Christ? Secondly, In God’s word It says rather plainly that he does want the whole world to follow him and that he wants Christians as his ambasadors. Mathew ch 28 verses 19 and 20 are called the great commission and it is a command from Jesus himself. It states: Go and make disciples of every nation baptizing them in the name of the father son and holy spirit. I can understand the sentiment behind your statement that Christianity has destroyed other cultures, after all the history of the church is full of people who did things in the name of Christ that God did not approve of but, Is that an accurate picture of evangelical Christians today?
Jesus said, “if you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.” John 15:19
Thank you
Hi! I genuinely believe that God has called me to go to the Sentinelese and I was wondering if you could email me at jchau@oru.edu? I have some questions that I’d like to ask you. Thanks and may God bless you in your work for Him!
you must be mentally ill. leave these people alone.
Are you kidding me? Christians are far and away the most priveleged people in the world. Sure there are some places where you would be killed for being a Christian, but there are many more places where you would be killed for being an atheist.
The world doesn’t hate Christians, we just hate it when you act like insensitive, inconsiderate children. The Sentinelese cleary don’t want outsiders invading their territory, just let them be. Get Christians in America to act more Christ-like, then you can worry about people on the other side of the planet.
hide behind verses. the truth is. as soon as contact is made the tribe will die of diseases. the truth is, you are hated not for your message, but your clear stupidity.
The Sentenelese are perceptive and smart. It is there resistance to modernization, and western interference that has kept there tribe in existence for 60,000 years.. If the nations of Africa would have adopted this same type of resistance towards the western modernized man.. AIDS and self destruction among there own kind, would be non existent.. The Sentenelese have been impervious to the western modernized man’s attempts to destroy there way of life..
why is it that these so called christians can t follow christian principles
Christ doesnt bother me but Christians scare me
learn to live and let live
These people are clearly not J-man’s peeps since they refuse to wear clothes and don’t see anything wrong with their nudity. Your J-man said that the apple of knowledge made Adam and Eve aware of Nudity. These people: CLEARLY NOT AWARE. #!#!# (comment edited) Christianity and its other fellow religions. I really hope someday before I die (and not descend into another world) people open their eyes.
Haha oh whatever, good luck trying to poison their minds and spirits before getting an arrow through you.
i think god as called me to patrol the island from a distance. picking off poisioness dogooders who approach the island. this is a sickening misguided site. what closed minds. leave them and others alone.
I would merely like to point out that one of the fundamental concepts of christianity is choice. No one is forced to accept Christ. The job of christians is not to convert tribes, it is to plant the seed of the gospel and let God do the rest. It makes no sense to not share the gospel in order to preserve a culture. After all isn’t it up to the Sentinelese how they preserve their culture? By presenting Christianity we merely offer them a choice. Perhaps they only act the way they do because they do not know anything else. As far as westernization being a threat to tribal populations that is accurate to some degree. In the past and even today many people have forgotten the real purpose of spreading the gospel and done things in the name of Christ that God does not approve of. However, there is more than one side to this. While great harm has been done by people with alterior motives under the guise of missionaries, great good has been acomplished by missionaries with the right intentions.
i will pray. i will pray that you nevet contact them or any other group. the harm you will cause. leave them alone.
i am so angry with you idiots that want to mess up lives in lands that have nothing to do with you. you have enough problems within a one mile radius. leave these people alone. if you dare go thereci can only hppecthat the first arrows silence you. go and find non belivers in your area. vile vile vile.
sickening site, they are not backwawrds, and you need to leave them alone, removing my posts does not change the truth, the truth is, by contacting this tribe you will give them disease and kill them.
So you think it’s Christian to go and infect these people with all kinds of diseases? To bring them what you think it civilization and salvation? I myself am Christian and I pray to the Lord that you shall realize that threatening innocent people’s lifestyle and possibly their life is not His work – on the contrary. Look into the mirror and recognize all the sins you commit every single day. Don’t add to that by destroying cultures that don’t do you any harm. Leave them in peace – for their and for your own good.
there should be a mission sent to teach the Gospel and also morals as these tribesmen engage in perverse orgys on the beach and are clearly grossly inbred which could lead to violent mental problems in the kids.
This is directed to Tom Lancashire who seems to be BEYOND saving as far as logic goes but here I go giving it the old college try. As soon as I learned about this tribe several years ago along with other isolated tribes I knew protestant Evangelist Christians were going to do their absolute best to try and convert these poor peoples to Christ.
First, exposure of missionaries to these people threatens them to disease which would slaughter the entire islands inhabitants similar to what the Spanish missionaries did to all of South America during the Spanish Colonial Era.
Second, perhaps you aren’t aware that they have been living there for over 60,000 years perfectly fine… LONG before Christ even was on the planet, I promise you they will be fine without intervention.
Finally regarding your statement
“these tribesmen engage in perverse orgys on the beach and are clearly grossly inbred which could lead to violent mental problems in the kids.”
How do you even know that? They have had virtually no contact from the outside world let alone been documented mating with each other, and even if they were engaging in orgys and inbreeding how would you fix it? Mate with them? You are beyond a zealot sir as everyone on this site is. Leave these people and the rest of the uncivilized world alone their primitive nature is their gift.
Thankyou Mr Rogers for taking part in discussion. Yes the Spanish in S America did alot of wrong but they ended the evil Aztec ways of satanic ritual killing of their own kind. Where Christianity goes better moral values follow. the info about Sentinelese orgys is from secondhand eyewitness accounts which are all we can go on at this time. all previously known non-Christian tribal cultures have revealed high levels of depravity including the Celts here in Britain so it is highly probable that the sentinelese are as perverse as reports suggest. They need to know the Love of God instead of love of lust.
I believe it is my personal mission to visit the Sentinelese and warn them about the various religions queueing up to have them converted to their own particular brand of Man in the Skyism. I think they should be warned in particular about Christians and taught to shoot on sight.any one bearing a cross
I hope they already have their own religion, which has stood them in good stead for over 50 millenia, and show no inclination whatsoever to forego it.