Reaching An Unreached People Group: The Jehai of the Temenggor Forest

This book examines how Christians reached out and adopted a suffering. displaced semi-nomadic tribe of Negrito Orang Asli located close to the Thai border over 400 km north of Kuala Lumpur. The tribe had been displaced by the Communist Insurgency and the flooding of their traditional tribal territories when the man made Temenggor Lake, in 1975, flooded the fertile valleys of the Perak River in the Belum and Temenggor Forests. The Jehai is not the first and will not be the last unreached people group that Christians will reach with the love of God. Many teams of fervent Christians will be moved by God to reach out to the numerous unreached people groups in Malaysia and elsewhere in South East Asia and in the wider world including areas in the 10/40 window. Many of these Christians will face similar obstacles as was faced by the group that reached out to the Jehai over the period of some nine years described in this book. Perhaps even more important is the fact that, out of the six Negrito Orang Asli people groups, five of these Negrito people groups have yet to hear the Word of God or to be delivered from abject poverty that grips their existence. The call of God to Christians to reach out to the Kensiu, Kintaq, Lanoh, Mendriq and the Bateq is already sounding. Perhaps one or more of the readers of this book, will respond and answer the cry of the Kensiu, Kintaq, Lanoh, Mendriq and Bateq for help even as these tribes face exploitation, loss of traditional territories, abject poverty and possible extinction as a people group. Dr. Paul Chen is the Senior Pastor of the River of Life Sanctuary Bandar Puteri, Selangor and is an ordained minister. He is a medical doctor and was Professor of Preventive Medicine in the University of Malaya. He has served in the World Health Organization in Southeast Asia and as the Representative of the World Health Organization and Head of WHO Programmes in Papua New Guinea. On his return to Malaysia, he was Professor of Community Medicine in the International Medical University Kuala Lumpur. ISBN:9789834426521