The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was created after World War II. The plan was to create this office in 1950, give it a small budget (US $300,000), resettle Europeans displaced due to the war, and dissolve the office after three years. Reports from this week note that […]
Unreached People Groups
God has not only made every person from Adam and Eve, but He has also determined when and where they will live (Acts 17:26). The reason? That they might find Him (Acts 17:27). 232 million people live outside of their countries of birth. While many of these people are followers […]
Reaching Unreached Peoples in North America
A simple question can take you down new ministry avenues. I recently received an update from a church planter. This brother is serving among one of the world’s most unreached people groups now in the United States. After spending almost a year among the people and getting to know business […]
The Best Missiological Question I’ve Heard in a Long Time
In C. Peter Wagner’s book, Church Planting for a Greater Harvest, he offers five “chief reasons” why we should plant churches. The second reason on the list is that church planting is a means to denominational survival. Many denominations in North America agree with this point. And with many denominations in […]
Why Denominations Should not Focus on Unreached People Groups
The United States is home to the third largest number of unreached people groups in the world (behind India and China). The Global Gates Network is one of very few groups in North America attempting to make disciples and plant churches among the unreached peoples in the United States. In […]
Global Gates and Unreached People Groups
Pastors, the picture you paint is the art your people will carry. If you call your people to the nations “over seas,” but fail to call them to the 360 unreached people groups living in the United States and 180 in Canada, then they will believe the unreached people groups […]
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