The Muslim share of the U.S. population (adults and children) is projected to grow from 0.8% in 2010 to 1.7% in 2030, making Muslims roughly as numerous as Jews or Episcopalians are in the United States today. Pew Research reports, "Although several European countries will have substantially higher percentages of Muslims, the United States is projected to have a larger number of Muslims by 2030 than any European country other than Russia and France."
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
How to Find Unreached People Groups in Your Own Backyard
As you walk through your neighborhood and visit your local shops and restaurants, keep an eye open for who is living next door or working at your local businesses. Unreached people can be Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, and more. They might come from India, Pakistan, China, the Middle East, and many other countries. Recently, I met a wonderful family that owns a local pizza shop who came here recently from Iraq. If you live in a city, it will be much easier to find those from unreached areas, but even in rural areas you might be surprised at who your neighbors are.
2. Check Your Local Universities
Another way to find unreached people groups in your area is to check with ministiries at your local university. To find out which organizations are working with International students, ask the university, your local church, or do an online search. You can also check with Intervarsity, Navigators, or Campus Crusade for Christ. If your university does not have a ministry there, you can volunteer to be a host family.
Now that you know where to look for unreached people groups in your own backyard, you just need to know how to reach out to connect with them.
View complete article from Missions Launch
Thanks to Mission Launch for thinking through things like this.
Monday, June 13, 2011
5 Unreached Peoples I Met This Month
Wow, only this month I have met and spoken to people from 5 different Unreached People Groups here northeast of Dallas. Bengali, Sudanese, Southern Thai, Iraqi and Pakistani. These people are very friendly and willing to have conversations about the things that are important to them. Including spirituality.
One Pakistani couple spent about 30 minutes talking to me at the grocery store and wanted more. Most of the conversation was of a spiritual nature in which they initiated.
What an opportunity we have here in America to reach the unreached of the world.
One Pakistani couple spent about 30 minutes talking to me at the grocery store and wanted more. Most of the conversation was of a spiritual nature in which they initiated.
What an opportunity we have here in America to reach the unreached of the world.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
YWAM San Francisco "Lets reach the unreached"
With the massive globalization and urbanization of the planet some of these unreached people groups are now amongst us in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of the 6898 people groups that are unreached there are 60 that are in the United States. YWAM wants to work with churches that are doing ministry amongst these people groups, start churches where no mission or church is focusing on, engage in mercy ministries and help train the existing indigenous Christians so they can better reach their own people. Below is a listing of some of those groups in the San Francisco Bay area. Our desire is to see these people reached with the gospel.
In Through the Back Door by JD Payne
Why North America?
When compared to the other continents of the world, North America boasts of a
very large evangelical population. There is absolutely no doubt that the greatest need for
the gospel, new churches, and resources is found outside of North America. However, in
the attempt to reach the majority world from solely outside of this continent, I believe the
North American Church may be overlooking some significantly strategic matters:
• About the number of UPGs in North America representing the majority world
• About the strategic significance of equipping and partnering with reached
majority world peoples to return to their UPGs living outside of North America
• About diminishing the significance of the role of the missionary and E-2 and E-3
forms of church planting in North America.
( Created by Dr. Ralph Winter. E1 is church planting among people just like us. E2 is done among those who are near cultural neighbors (culturally) and E3 is done among those who are culturally very different from those with the vision to do the church planting. )
Read Article Here
When compared to the other continents of the world, North America boasts of a
very large evangelical population. There is absolutely no doubt that the greatest need for
the gospel, new churches, and resources is found outside of North America. However, in
the attempt to reach the majority world from solely outside of this continent, I believe the
North American Church may be overlooking some significantly strategic matters:
• About the number of UPGs in North America representing the majority world
• About the strategic significance of equipping and partnering with reached
majority world peoples to return to their UPGs living outside of North America
• About diminishing the significance of the role of the missionary and E-2 and E-3
forms of church planting in North America.
( Created by Dr. Ralph Winter. E1 is church planting among people just like us. E2 is done among those who are near cultural neighbors (culturally) and E3 is done among those who are culturally very different from those with the vision to do the church planting. )
Read Article Here
Unreached Peoples in the USA
This link leads to the Joshua Project statistics on Unreached in the USA
http://www.joshuaproject.net/countries.php?rog3=US&sf=jpscale&so=desc
http://www.joshuaproject.net/countries.php?rog3=US&sf=jpscale&so=desc
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