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The goal of the project is to bring definition to the unfinished task of the Great Commission by providing accurate, regularly updated ethnic people group information critical for understanding the scope of the work required. [5] Focusing on ethnicity, the project maintains a database of "unreached peoples" listed by country and language. As of ...
In Christianity, an unreached people group refers to an ethnic group without an indigenous, self-propagating Christian church movement. [1] Any ethnic or ethnolinguistic nation without enough Christians to evangelize the rest of the nation is an "unreached people group".
Ralph Dana Winter (December 8, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was an American missiologist and Presbyterian missionary who helped pioneer Theological Education by Extension, raised the debate about the role of the church and mission structures and became well known as the advocate for pioneer outreach among unreached people groups.
The committee articulated the aim of the movement as furthering ‘the total biblical mission of the church, recognizing that in this mission of sacrificial service, evangelism is primary, and that our particular concern must be the [then 2,700 million] unreached people of the world.’ [4]
Pioneers is a Christian missions organization focused on church planting among unreached people groups.It was founded by former Wall Street Journal National Sales Manager Ted Fletcher in 1979 and has offices in Orlando, Florida, Australia, Ghana, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, Singapore, and Brazil.
The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church originated in the 20th century to raise awareness of the increasing violence, torture, death, "worship restrictions, public humiliation, and social isolation" that some Christians face in atheist states, such as in North Korea, as well as in South Asia and the Middle East; [3] [11] the ...
A prayer meeting in Victoria Square, Birmingham. A prayer meeting is a group of lay people getting together for the purpose of prayer as a group. [1] Prayer meetings are typically conducted outside regular services by one or more members of the clergy or other forms of religious leadership, but they may also be initiated by decision of non-leadership members as well.
Rev. Jim Wallis, founder and president of the Christian social change group Sojourners and a regular attendee of the National Prayer Breakfast, said of the event "it's sort of a time to — where people want to acknowledge the importance of prayer and faith. And that can be kind of a civil religion, civic faith kind of common denominator thing.