During Share’s annual Short-Term Outreach & Relief Mission (STORM) in Turkanaland, Kenya, in the summer of 2017, Turkana missionaries boldly declared, “We are a Missionary Tribe!” That vision took root. In April 2021, Share commissioned 10 of those Turkana missionaries—together with 5 Toposa believers living in Turkanaland whom God had clearly called—to bring the Gospel to the neighboring Toposa people of South Sudan.

With strong indigenous leadership, clear structure, the right tools, and ongoing financial support, God is using these missionaries to reap an unprecedented harvest of souls among the Toposa in the years ahead. We believe they will not only make disciples but also raise up disciple-makers—fulfilling Christ’s Great Commission (Matt. 28:19–20).

Share’s strategy is to replicate among the Toposa people the contextualized Disciple-Making Movement/Church-Planting Movement (DMM/CPM) curriculum and methodology that the Turkana believers have already used so effectively among their own.

The missionaries first conducted a “Gap Analysis”—a mapping exercise to identify areas where the Gospel has not yet penetrated among the Toposa people. This effort was carried out in collaboration with the existing cluster of local mission agencies and missionaries in the region known as “TNJ” (Toposa, Ng’aratom, and Jiye people-groups), a subset of the Global Alliance for Church Multiplication (GACX).

With this analysis completed, the missionaries have begun sharing the Gospel and replicating the DMM/CPM Curriculum and Methodology in previously unreached villages.

Over the next 4–5 years, Share’s vision is to:

  • Reach unreached villages across Toposaland with the Gospel.

  • Equip believers with the DMM/CPM Curriculum and Methodology.

  • Secure land and build a Training & Sending Center.

  • Foster multiplication of disciples and continued spiritual growth.

  • Cultivate ownership and sustainability among indigenous believers.

  • Eventually transition leadership fully to local believers.

The Toposa Missionary Team

Those Whom God Has Called to Reach the Toposa People with the Gospel

“Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age“
– Matt. 28:19-20.

“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come”
– Matt. 24:14.