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Best Practices for Reaching People Groups

Best Practices for Reaching People Groups. Best Practices for Reaching People Groups. Meet the Panel. Cody Lorance Sang Park Jorge Melendez Bob Burton Van Kicklighter. People Group. What is a “people group”?

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Best Practices for Reaching People Groups

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  1. Best Practicesfor ReachingPeople Groups

  2. Best Practicesfor ReachingPeople Groups

  3. Meet the Panel • Cody Lorance • Sang Park • Jorge Melendez • Bob Burton • Van Kicklighter

  4. People Group What is a “people group”? "For evangelization purposes, a people group is the largest group within which the Gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understanding or acceptance.” Lausanne 1982

  5. People Group What is a “people group”? "For evangelization purposes, a people group is the largest group within which the Gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understandingor acceptance.” Lausanne 1982

  6. People Group Everyone belongs to a “people group”! ethnicity – Yes language – Yes Kinship – ethno-linguistic Geographic – place Association – affinity & interests

  7. Peoples Spectrum

  8. Definitions • Unengaged • No church planting methodology consistent with Evangelical faith and practice • Unreached • Evangelical Christians is less than 2% of its population

  9. Discovering Unreached groups of people Panel Discussion http://people.yahoo.com/ http://www.whitepages.com http://www.islamicfinder.org http://maps.google.com http://www.zabasearch.com http://www.anywho.com/whitepages http://www.rudhratek.com/

  10. Creating awarenessand concern What is working around The North Central States

  11. Tools&Resources

  12. Resources • People Portraits – Developed by NAMB • http://www.churchplantingvillage.net/peopleportraits/ • Census Data • www.peoplegroups.info • http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer • Modern Language Association • http://arcgis.mla.org/mla/default.aspx

  13. BestPractices • Cross-cultural v. “Indigenous” Planters (Mission to, through, and beyond diaspora) • For Mission to, key Biblical principles include incarnation & crucifixion • Balance need-meeting w/ relationship (reciprocity) • Contextualization on both liturgical & relational scale • For Mission through/beyond consider collaboration and sovereignty

  14. Q & A

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