Unreached People Groups

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The United States is not only one of the world’s largest countries (3rd), it also home to the third largest number of unreached people groups (a story few have heard).  Over the past several years, I have noticed a very common church planting strategy that is on the minds of […]

Jesus Did not Say Wait for Pastors to Plant Churches

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This is the second post in the series that I’m doing on my forthcoming work Pressure Points: Twelve Global Issues Shaping the Face of the Church.  While popular evangelical conversations and strategy shifts related to “unreached people groups” can be traced to 1974, the reality is that thirty-nine years later this […]

Pressure Point #1 Unreached Peoples

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One of the convictions we share as a pastoral staff team serving The Church at Brook Hills is the need to integrate the worlds of domestic and international.  Believing it to be biblical, we try to operate from a missiology that blurs the lines between home and abroad, domestic and […]

106 Representatives of Unengaged-Unreached Peoples in the United States

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Imagine the possibility of future short term teams where the destination and unreached people group served over there is determined by the unreached people group your church serves over here. “Pastor, where in the world do you think the Lord is leading our church to go this year?” “Possibly Morocco. […]

Over Here, for Over There: A Future for Short Term ...

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The term “unengaged” is a recent label developed to assist with our Great Commission task.  According to Global Research, a people group is described as unengaged “when there is no church planting methodology consistent with Evangelical faith and practice under way. A people group is not engaged when it has […]

Unengaged Peoples in the United States

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An important report addressing the 2010-2011 numbers of international students in the United States was just released from the Institute of International Education.  I have greatly appreciated their research over the years.  A most helpful annual document is Open Doors Fast Facts (below are two tables from the document).  This […]

Record Number of International Students in U. S.

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