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Where are We?
A Reflection on theCurrent Status of
Reaching the Unreached
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The World isChanging
Changes Affecting All of Us
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A Changing World
1) Globalization
economic
cultural
information
physical
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A Changing World
1) Globalization and the Unreached
We are seeking increasedopportunities for interaction andinfluence among the unreachedwhile struggling with all the
implications
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A Changing World
2) Localization
cultural identity
nationalism
ethnocentrism
religious identity resurgence
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A Changing World
2) Localization and the Unreached
The common ethne approach
addresses this felt-need.We are also seeking to use awide variety of customized
approaches
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A Changing World
3) Urbanization
Over 50% of world now urban
By 2050 estimated 66%
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A Changing World
3) Urbanization
Christians are 44% of urban
populations, while we are only33% of world population.
Globally 63% of Christians lived in
cities in 2000.
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A Changing World
3) Urbanization and the Unreached
Multi-dimensional approaches
necessary for the cities Currently a greater emphasis on
people group homelands
We need more emphasis on UPGs innon-homeland unreached cities &
megacities
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A Changing World
4) Three Waves of Societies
Agricultural Wave
Industrial Wave Information Wave
3 Waves are co-existent
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A Changing World
4) Key Issues for the Three Waves
AgriculturalTribalism
IndustrialNationalism
Information - Globalization
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A Changing World
4) Waves of Societies & the Unreached
Some unaware of waves
Some subconsciously aware
Some addressing different approachesto different wavessuch as the rise
of information wave ministries
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A Changing World
5) Migration
political refugees
ecological migrants economic migrants
nomadic communities
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A Changing World
5) Migration and the Unreached
political refugeesgrowing number
of refugee ministries ecological migrantsgrowing number
of green ecological mission efforts
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A Changing World
5) Migration and the Unreached
economic migrantssome attention
to student and economic immigrantsbut probably not proportionateattention given their strategic potential
nomadic communitiesfocusedmissions to nomads but one of themost difficult focus populations
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A Changing World
6) Hurting
400 million on verge of starvation
1.3 billionso safe water 1.1 billionno adequate shelter 1.5 billionno medical care
40,000 children under 5 will dietoday from malnutrition & sickness
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A Changing World
6) The Hurting among the Unreached
Some encouraging signs of gettingbeyond the heretical separationof the sacred & secular /physical & spiritual
while acknowledging that salvationand new life in Christ is the
ultimate healing
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A Changing World7) Crisis
Wars: over 100 primarily ethnic wars- 90% of casualties are civilians
Increase of Terrorism
Fundamentalist / Mainline / Modernist
conflict in major religions
Increasing CHEscomplex
humanitarian emergencies
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A Changing World
7) Crises and the Unreached
People are usually more open
during times of uprooting
A need to be more strategic in ourcollaboration in response to crisessuch as Frontier Crisis ResponseNetwork strategy group here
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A Changing World
7) Crises and the Unreached
A growing number of radically
committed people willing to risktheir lives for the gospel
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A Changing World
8) Persecution
The 20th Century has seen moremartyrs than the previous 19combined (population is greater)
There may be up to 160,000martyrdoms per year in 50 countries.
(David B. Barrett & Todd M.Johnson, World Christian Trends
AD30-AD 2200, p. 71)
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A Changing World
8) Persecution and the Unreached
Some have learned to thrivedespite persecution.
Others are struggling to know bestways to deal with persecution
Greater awareness that persecutionis the norm, not the exception
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A Changing Church
Changes in the
Global Body of Christ
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PROTESTANT MISSIONSIMPACT
Percentage ofProtestantsin Asia, Africa, and
Latin America
Paul E. Pierson
77%in
2005
10%in
1900
1%in 1800
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100,000 new Christians
every day.
4,500 new congregations
every week.
A Changing Church
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Christians around the World
227
million
20million
427million
350million
300million
123million
410million
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In South Korea
Seoul
Pusan
In 1900 there were no
protestant churches.
Today South Korea is 30%
Christian.
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In 1900 only 3%Christian
Today sub-saharanAfrica is 50%
Christian.
25,000 new believers
daily
In Africa
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In Latin America
In 1900 there were
50,000 Protestants.
In 1980 there were 20million Protestants.
In 2000 there are 100
million Protestants.
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In China In 1950:1 million Christians
Today:70+ million Christians
35,000 new believersdaily
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Great Commission Christians
In 1900 14%of all Christians
In 2005, they are 32%
Intl Bulletin of MissionaryResearch, 1/05, David B. Barrettand Todd M. Johnson, p. 29.
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A Changing Church
The Christian center of gravity has shifted to
the Global South (now with 62.5% of all
Christians).
It is also shifting east. East Asia has about
115 million Christians.
World Christian Database
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Missionsis Changing
Changes
in theHarvest Force
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New Sending Countries
More missionaries are being sent fromnon-Western churches than from
Western churches.
There are now about 4,000 Third Worldmission agencies.
Ralph Winter & Bruce Koch, Finishing the Task: The Unreached Peoples Challenge, Perspectives, 3rded., p. 509)
David B. Barrett & Todd M. Johnson, World Christian Trends AD 30-AD 2200, p. 71).
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Rank Country PIAs/miss
1 Mongolia 222
2 Lebanon 295
3 Singapore 400
4 Niger 451
5 Nepal 458
6 Sri Lanka 4797 Spain 512
8 Faeroe Is 533
9 Mali 608
10 Thailand 633
11 China, HK 688
12 Canada 696
13 India 842
14 New Zealand 887
15 Korea, S 918
How many Christians to send one missionary?
Rank Country PIAs/miss
23 Australia 1546
26 Japan 1806
30 United States 2148
31 Switzerland 2166
37 Finland 3046
40 Brazil 366641 UK 3775
42 Norway 3873
43 Sweden 4081
52 Argentina 7059
53 Germany 7226
67 South Africa 9985
73 Romania 12089
75 Nigeria 13204
I t ti li ti f Mi i
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Internationalization of Missions
Emergence of multi-national Christian agencies
CCC, YWAM, OMF, SIL, SIM, Navs, WV, AOG
No more sending and receiving nations
Missions continues to move East and South: South
Korea, Philippines, Latin America, India, Africa, SouthAfrica, China, Singapore
The Chinese church has a vision to move through
Central Asia back to Jerusalem.
They are praying to send out thousands and tens of
thousands of missionaries
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New Mission Patterns
More local churches are bypassing
traditional mission agencies, becomingdirect senders. (Stan Guthrie, Mission in the3rdMillennium, p. 5)
Churches and individuals are supportingmore indigenous, national ministries,instead of more costly foreign missionaries
(who have their own efficiencies).
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A Changing Focus
Changes inhow we define
and segmentthe Unreached
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Changing Focus
From one main list (Joshua Project)to a variety of perspectives
Access to Gospel
Joshua Project List (large UPGs) Joshua Project 2 List (all UPGs) Unimax Peoples
Evangelical Percentages Viable Church Major Blocs
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The Unfinished Task
28% without access to gospel 39.5% members of ethne without
viable churches
4300 Least Evangelized ethnolinguisticgroups
6721 Unreached Ethnic Peoples
13,000 Unreached Unimax Peoples
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The Unfinished Task: Access
Accessdo they have access to thegospel? / do they have opportunity?
While 72% of the world is adequately
evangelized, 1,800,228,000 are left.
David Barrett, Todd Johnson and Peter F. Crossing, Status of Global Mission,2005, in Context of 20th and 21st Centuries, International Bulletin of MissionaryResearch, Jan. 2005, p. 29.
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The Unfinished Task: Access
This 28% of the world is an increase from24% in 1980 but a decrease from 58% in1900.
Currently, about 87,000are evangelized perday.
(From the World Christian Encyclopedia, David Barrett, George Kurian, Todd
Johnson, Eds. 2001, ISBN:0195079639, p. 2: 538.)
Th U fi i h d T k
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The Unfinished Task:
Population without Churches
39.5% of the worlds individuals aremembers of ethne with no viable church
Joshua Project 2
The Unfinished Task: Major
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The Unfinished Task: Major
Blocs
0
10
20
30
40
5060
70
80
90
100
Muslim 20.4%
Buddhist 12.2%
Hindu 13.5Other 4.7
Non-Religious 11.9%
Ethnoreligious 4%
Christian 33.1
Looking Forward: An Overview of World Evangelization, 2005-2025
A special report for the Lausanne 2004 Forum on World Evangelization Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Gordon-ConwellTheological SeminaryTodd M. Johnson, Peter F. Crossing, and Bobby Jangsun Ryu
Th U fi i h d T k
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The Unfinished Task:
Ethnic Groups
Total Peoples by Country
(People Group counted foreach country it is in.
This is the list most often
referred to as thepeoples of the world.)
15,900
The Unfinished Task:
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The Unfinished Task:Ethnic Groups Needing Outside
Help
Unreached / Least Reached:(Less than 2% True Christian
and less than 5% Adherent)
Joshua Project 2
6,721
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The Unfinished Task: Churches
A unimax people is An alternate term forminipeople emphasizing the maximum size of
people in which the gospel can spread before
encountering barriers. World Christian Database
By mid-2005 there were 13,000 unreached
unimax peopleshaving no viable church
planting movement or viable, indigenous,
evangelizing church.
Center for the Study of Global Christianity All Humanity in Mission Perspective
in mid-2005 2004 www.globalchristianity.org
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13,000+ Unreached Unimax Peoples
5500 Muslim
3200 Hindu
2000 Tribal
1500 Buddhist
300 Chinese
200 Jewish
100 Nonreligious
200 Other
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Changing Realities
Changes among
the Unreached
Ch i R liti B d N
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Changing Realities: Bad News
Majority of Christians still not aware ofthe challenge of the unreached
Many that are aware feel it is not their
responsibility Many church and mission leaders feel
that missions to the unreached has been
over-emphasized
Ch i R liti B d N
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Changing Realities: Bad News
Average Christian gives 1.8% of theirincome
5% of christian giving goes to missions
(15 billion) More is lost to embezzlement (16 billion)
than is given to missions
Of mission funds -- between 0.1% and1.66% is focused on unreached
Ch i R liti B d N
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Changing Realities: Bad News
95% of Christian ministers focus on theirown people
Of the 5% who become missionaries 80-
90% focus onethne
which are majorityChristian
Only 2.54% of missionaries are
focused on the 25 - 28% of the world
who are unreached
Cross-cultural Missionaries
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Cross-cultural Missionaries
per Million in Major Blocs
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
Muslim 2.7
Buddhist 5.6
Hindu 5.6Other 9.9
Non-Religious 10.5
Tribal 50.9
Jewish 58.8Christian 185.6
Source: Todd M. Johnson & Mission Frontiers Magazine, June 2000
Ch i R liti GOOD N
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Changing Realities: GOOD News
In the last 20 years: a 250 to 400%increase in number of missionaries
focused on the unreached
New reinforcements: Comibam has 14% of their missionaries
focused on the unreached
Singapore has an estimated 25%
Resources from the Harvest: former UPGs
now reaching outMongolian, Bhojpuri, etc.
Ch i R liti GOOD N
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Changing Realities: GOOD News
Increase of networks w/ UPG emphasis
Increase of Prayer Networks
Various UPG Networks in countries around the
world: Phillippines, India, Argentina, Nigeria,
Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, BAM
Regional and Bloc Networks:
SE Asia, AfricaMANI, Comibam, CAC, NAP,APP, SEANet, Vision 5:9
Gospel Movements in
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Gospel Movements in
Unreached Areas
1. Bhojpuri in India:30,000 churches in 10 years
2. Henan, China:
1 million to 5 million in 1990s3. Masai in Africa:
from 0% to 15% christian in 10 years
4. Sierra Leonenew CPM approach March2005now 1 new church a day
5. Nepal, West Africa, Cambodia, North
America, South America,
Unevangelized World is
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Unevangelized World is
Shrinking
Births+166
Evangelized-148
Deaths-25
Convert-36
Defect+31
Deaths-74
Deaths-35
Births+70
Evangelized+148
Convert+36
Defect-31
Unevangelized
EvangelizedNon-Christian
Christian
-7
+69
+40
Justin Long,Network for Strategic Missions
Conversion rates: 1990 2000
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-10
010
20
3040
50
6070
80
Muslim 8%
Buddhist 4.5%
Hindu -8.7%Pentecostal 58%
Evangelical 42%
Christian 13.5%
An Overview of the World by Religious Adherents from the Mission Frontiers June 2000 edition.
Conversion rates: 1990-2000
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Conversion as % of Growth, 2005:
Independent Christians: 47%
European Christians: 34%
Pentecostal / Charismatic Christians: 23%All Christians: 10%
Barrett, Intl Bulletin of Miss. Research, Status of Global Mission, 1/04, 1/05
Michael Jaffarian, The demographics of world religions entering the 21st century, in Between past & future,J. Bonk ed. 2003, pp. 264-5.
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Addressing the domains
Arts, Media
Business, Economics
Education
Government, Law
Healthcare, Medicine
Religion
Science, Technology
Sports
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Will We Change?
Our current patterns will
not reach the unreached
Will We Change?
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If current patterns continue,the unreached will still be
23-28% of the worldspopulation in 2025
Will We Change?
Will We Change?
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Insanity is doing the samething over and over again and
expecting different results
Albert Einstein
Will We Change?
NOT h t d
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NOT what can we do
BUT what must be done
NOT How can I reach thesepeople with the gospel?
BUT What and Who is it goingto take to reach these people?
Will We Change?
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It is not OK to be selfishfor the sake of your
people group
cityministryorganization
We must act more like the Body ofChrist and be more kingdom minded
and servant hearted
Will We Change?
Will We Change?
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We need a variety of approaches
We need to avoid the Garden of Eden
mindset that we can become like Godand find and teach THE ONLY WAY todo missions among the unreached
We need these various ministries towork more strategically and effectivelytogether
Will We Change?
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The Resources arein the Harvest!!
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The Resources are in the Harvest
Matthew 28:18-20 teaches us to disciple thelost nations, baptize them and teach them toobey
We need to strip off our culture as much as
possible and plant the gospel Dependency is the primary killer of peoplemovements
The goal is indigenous churchesas the
primary instrument of Gods presence and workin a community
Will We Change?
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Are we desperate?Are we desperate yet?
Are we desperate enough?Are we willing to give up anything,completely change our life andministry, sacrifice everything?
Will We Change?
Will We Allow God to Change Us?
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I pray that Christ Jesus and the churchwill forever bring praise to God. Hispower at work in us can do far morethan we dare ask or imagine. Eph 3:20
Will We Allow God to Change Us?
"Look at the nations and watch--
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and be utterly amazed. For I amgoing to do something in your days
that you would not believe, even ifyou were told. Habakkuk 1:5
I looked and behold a great number
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I looked, and behold, a great numberwhich no one could numberof all
nations, tribes, peoples and tonguesstanding before the throne and beforethe Lamb, clothed with white robes,
with palm branches in their hands andcrying out with a loud voice saying,
Salvation belongs to our God who sits
on the throne and to the Lamb.
Revelation 7:9-10