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Translation Quality and Scripture Impact for ‘Last Mile’ Bible Translations
…Additionally, God has allowed us to live in a day where we can strengthen and support those who risk so much by training and using the latest technological breakthrough for translation. As has been seen, this seven-step translation process not only assures a quality translation but also assures Scriptural impact…
Are Current People Group Presentations Engaging the Next Generation?
…ates that three out of four US churchgoers have either never heard of the Great Commission or do not know what it means. Yet, we are depending on the NextGen to be our missions sending force of the future. Something must change. It is critical to engage a younger generation…
People Groups and the Nigeria Evangelical Missions Association
…ated in the north of Nigeria. This discovery culminated in another very strategic consultation, named “Go North”, in the same year. It would only take 11 months for Nigeria to be delisted from countries with unengaged groups, and four years later the number of unreached peoples was reduced to 45.…
More Lists, More Data, More Possibilities
…add different data. What we have learned is that the deeper the micro data, the greater the level of security concern. That has a direct relationship to partnerships; the deeper the data, the fewer organizations are willing to join or share. For this reason, we have invested more in macro…
Urbanization and Measuring the Remaining Task
…additional issues have emerged, and we’re struggling to address them. The first is the danger of under-engagement. The principle is simple: we love lists, we want to check items off and so we did what is immediately required to put in a “good faith effort” to remove a people group…
Why South Asia People Group Data Looks So Different
…ate with, share a meal with, marry, what homes one might enter, what occupation one might have, religious tradition and much more. This has profound impact on defining people groups and on church-planting. South Asian communities are the largest practical identity in which the gospel can take root and spread…
Seeing the Unreached World As It Really Is
…ate into other cultures, regain and lose their languages, come to Christ and fall away from the faith. As a result, a continually updated people group list is essential for decision-making in the mission world. Lists help believers gain a clearer picture of the remaining task of world evangelization that…
People Group Lists and the Challenge of Growing Complexity
…add further levels of refinement to people group data. This greater granularity can take two forms. One refinement would be increasingly finer slices of traditional people groups. This would involve tracking traditional people groups by province or district, subgroup, religious tradition and/or dialect. A second, very different refinement being suggested…
A Small Shift with Potential Significant Impact: Viewing Peoples Globally
…adding to the hierarchy and further disrupting terminology and counts. Recommendations A. Present a biblical basis for the PGAC “people group” perspective. Current geo-political boundaries did not exist when Jesus gave the Great Commission. B. Begin highlighting and emphasizing the PGAC perspective. Show the PGIC and PGAC total and unreached…
Is The World Still A Waffle?
…aid that prayer is the “first domino” in reaching the unreached. The Unreached of the Day is a simple and practical way to be involved. It is available here in print and by mobile app, email, podcast and printable PDF at unreachedoftheday.org. May the Lord stir hearts in prayer rooms…
Innovation Grounded in the Spirituality of Frontier Mission
…adding to them group thinking, spiritual discernment, theological grounding, and a missiological focus. Group Spiritual Discernment We believe that significant innovation in missions requires a group of believers to be on a journey of discernment together. Insights and innovative ways forward emerge from communities of prayer. They surface over time…
Design Thinking: Designed for Missions
…addition, these solutions have reduced the number of refugees and immigrants who leave our community, thus increasing the likelihood of sustainable gatherings of believers from among least-reached people groups. UVA Darden School of Business Our design thinking approach was impacted greatly by Professor Jeanne M. Liedtka of the University of…
Wordly Collective: Building a Collaborative Ecosystem for Minority Language Community Flourishing
…addition to being a board member of Wordly, Melvyn is also chairman of Transformational Business Network (TBN) Asia, which takes an ecosystem approach to supporting social entrepreneurs, and co-founder of Actxplorer, which combines travel with benefit to local communities. He describes his call and gifting as being an integrator, which…
The Discipline of Innovation: Approaching Planning Differently
…aid, “In a time of rapid change, the opportunities for improving, for getting results, are also changing rapidly. Things that were impossible or unnecessary yesterday suddenly become possible, and things that made great sense yesterday no longer make sense . . . One of the tasks of leaders is to…
Accelerating Transformation
…addiction for over 13 years, Andrei got a new chance at life. He found freedom and a new purpose in life through his relationship with Jesus. After graduating from Teen Challenge and getting married, he found a great job as a manager of a restaurant owned by a local Christian…
Doing Contextualization in Cambodia: Communities of Dialogical Practice
…aid Tep Samnang, the Director of EFC, “some are disagreeable, but it’s okay, in everything there will be some objections.” 2. Practical—One of the most striking features of the Cambodian approach of contextualization is the decision to center the work of theologizing around ritual. The subject of debate in Acts…
Rich Soil for Spiritual Innovation
…aterial and non-material needs in a sustainable way” (What Is Permaculture ?, n.d.). “Permies,” as they are often called, preach of “working with, rather than against, nature” and of engaging in “protracted and thoughtful observation, rather than protracted and thoughtless labor.” For our purposes, permaculture principles gave us a new…
Understanding Human Nature and Money
…additional funds from those who believe in this ministry and are willing to sacrifice to help us move forward in casting vision for Kingdom Movements in all peoples. Like most of the people who work for Frontier Ventures, my salary is supplied by the donations of churches and friends who…
Your Part in God’s Story: An Interview with Author Steve Addison
…ated by the stories of when Jesus rose from the dead and faced a band of disciples who were defeated and disillusioned. Just like us! Luke tells us that it took Jesus just forty days to restore them and prepare them for a worldwide mission. How did He do that?…
Dependency is a complicated issue!
…addition, in some cases, the funding provided by outside workers also creates the ongoing need to be involved; so, there are times when both the outside and local partners are dependent on the financial arrangement. I know of cases in which, if it were not for money, workers would cease…