2 Present Where Are We the Current Status of Reaching the Unreached

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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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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



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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
http://www.globalchristianity.org/http://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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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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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

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