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Best Practices for Reaching People Groups. Best Practices for Reaching People Groups. Meet the Panel. Cody Lorance Sang Park Jorge Melendez Bob Burton Van Kicklighter. People Group. What is a “people group”?
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Meet the Panel • Cody Lorance • Sang Park • Jorge Melendez • Bob Burton • Van Kicklighter
People Group What is a “people group”? "For evangelization purposes, a people group is the largest group within which the Gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understanding or acceptance.” Lausanne 1982
People Group What is a “people group”? "For evangelization purposes, a people group is the largest group within which the Gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understandingor acceptance.” Lausanne 1982
People Group Everyone belongs to a “people group”! ethnicity – Yes language – Yes Kinship – ethno-linguistic Geographic – place Association – affinity & interests
Definitions • Unengaged • No church planting methodology consistent with Evangelical faith and practice • Unreached • Evangelical Christians is less than 2% of its population
Discovering Unreached groups of people Panel Discussion http://people.yahoo.com/ http://www.whitepages.com http://www.islamicfinder.org http://maps.google.com http://www.zabasearch.com http://www.anywho.com/whitepages http://www.rudhratek.com/
Creating awarenessand concern What is working around The North Central States
Resources • People Portraits – Developed by NAMB • http://www.churchplantingvillage.net/peopleportraits/ • Census Data • www.peoplegroups.info • http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer • Modern Language Association • http://arcgis.mla.org/mla/default.aspx
BestPractices • Cross-cultural v. “Indigenous” Planters (Mission to, through, and beyond diaspora) • For Mission to, key Biblical principles include incarnation & crucifixion • Balance need-meeting w/ relationship (reciprocity) • Contextualization on both liturgical & relational scale • For Mission through/beyond consider collaboration and sovereignty