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Mission Question
How many Muslim people groups in Nigeria are unreached?
Answer ... Missions Scripture
"Through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations."
Unreached Peoples Fact
The United States has the largest population of groups whose primary religion is Christianity (284,000,000), followed by Brazil (190,000,000). Stories from the Field
"I am a born again Christian, or at least I believed I was. But I recently realized that it was a sham. I do love the Lord, but he was not the Lord of ..." Continue
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10/40 Window Top Source: Luis Bush and AD2000 & Beyond
Movement
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| Affinity Bloc Top All people groups, who either live in a particular region or have similar cultural roots. Peoples are broadly grouped into 16 blocs with affinities based on language, culture, religion, politics. In nearly every Bloc there are widely dissimilar and unrelated linguistic minorities, but often there is one particular culture that is dominant. Affinity Blocs are the top level of the ethnic peoples tree and coded as ROP1. For a diagram of the Ethnic Peoples tree click here. For a listing of all Affinity Blocs click here. Click here to view Patrick Johnstone's PDF article about Affinity Blocs and People Clusters from Mission Frontiers Mar/Apr 2007. Source: Patrick Johnstone and Joshua Project
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| Agency Progress Indicator (API) Top 0 to 5 ranking of the progress of missions activity among a particular people group. Supporting data may or may not be available.
Source: Patrick Johnstone
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| Christian Adherent Top One who claims to be a follower of the Christian religion in any form. This definition is based on the individuals self-confession, not his or her ecclesiology, theology or religious commitment and experience. This includes professing and affiliated adults and also their children (practising and non-practising) who reside in a given area or country, or who are of a particular ethno-linguistic or ethno-cultural people in the listing below. This is the broadest possible classification of Christian and includes the six ecclesiological types of Christians: Protestant, Roman Catholic, Other Catholic, Orthodox, Foreign marginal, Indigenous marginal as defined in Operation World. Christian Adherent numbers include the Evangelicals subset. Source: Operation
World by Patrick Johnstone
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| Church / Gatherings of
Disciples Top Usually written as "church" note lower case "c." A gathering of followers of Christ. Does not imply a building or specific location. A fellowship of believers committed to spiritual growth and mutual encouragement. Starting these fellowships is often called church planting. Source: USCWM and
Patrick Johnstone
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| Church Planting Indicator (CPI) Top 0 to 5 ranking of the progress of church growth among a particular people group. Supporting data may or may not be available.
Source: Patrick Johnstone
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Ethnic Code Top
Source: World
Christian Encyclopedia
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| Ethnic Peoples Tree Top A hierachical structure classifying people groups. It is a four level tree structure starting with 16 Affinity Blocs, branching to 252 People Clusters, then to 9,871 People Groups and finally to 16,304 Peoples-by-Country. Click here for a diagram of the Ethnic Peoples tree. Click here to view Patrick Johnstone's PDF article about Affinity Blocs and People Clusters from Mission Frontiers Mar/Apr 2007. Source: Joshua Project and Operation
World by Patrick
Johnstone
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| Ethnic People
Group Top Groupings of individuals based primarily on ethnic or community boundaries. One ethnic group may speak any number of languages, because (a) many individuals are multi-lingual, and (b) language spoken often varies by location of the individuals in the group. Assumes the acceptance barrier is higher than the understandability barrier. Most appropriate for church planting and discipleship, but not highly appropriate for language-based outreaches. This approach is most needed in South Asia, where the caste system has produced strong community boundaries. Source: Joshua Project
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| Ethno-Linguistic
People Group Top Groupings of individuals based first of all on language spoken, but with the possibility of sub-divisions based upon dialect or cultural distinctives. One language group = one or more ethnic groups, using this method. Assumes the "understandability barrier" to the gospel message is higher than the "acceptance barrier". Appropriate for language-based out reaches of various kinds. More appropriate for church planting / discipleship than a strictly language group approach, because it recognizes understandability and acceptance barriers that a strictly language-based approach may be blind to. Not appropriate for church planting / discipleship activity when the acceptance barrier is higher than the understandability barrier. This approach is appropriate in most of the world, outside of South Asia. Source: Joshua Project
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| Evangelical
Top Followers of Christ who generally emphasize:
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Harvest Information System Top Source: Harvest
Information System
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| Human Development Index Top A measure of country development generated by the UN. The Human Development Index (HDI) is based on three indicators:
Source: UN
Human Development Report
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Joshua
Project Progress Scale Top
For a summary of people groups at each of the Joshua Project Scale levels, click here. Source: Joshua Project
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| Language
Group Top Groupings of individuals entirely according to language spoken. One language group = one ethnic group, using this method. Appropriate for language-based outreaches (literature distributions, radio, recordings, etc.) Also appropriate for church planting / discipleship in many cases, but not all cases. Source: Joshua Project
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| Morelia Progress
Scale Top Church Progress scale used extensively in central Latin America.
Source: COMIMEX / COMIBAM
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| Original Joshua Project
List (JPL) Top The ethno-linguistic peoples list focusing on the 1,600 largest unreached people groups created and promoted by Joshua Project from 1995-2000 under the AD2000 & Beyond Movement. Now merged into the Joshua Project overall peoples list. Source: Joshua Project and AD2000 & Beyond
Movement
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| People Cluster / Gateway People Top Within each Affinity Bloc are a number of more closely related peoples which, for strategic purposes, may be clustered together. These relationships are often based on a common identity of language and name but sometimes on the basis of culture, religion, economy, or dominance of one group over another. Almost all People Clusters have total populations of over one million. It is likely that each People Cluster will need an international partnership of Christian churches and agencies for the effective evangelization of each constituent people group. People Clusters are the second level of the ethnic peoples tree and coded as ROP2. For a diagram of the Ethnic Peoples tree click here. For a listing of all People Clusters click here. Click here to view Patrick Johnstone's PDF article about Affinity Blocs and People Clusters from Mission Frontiers Mar/Apr 2007. Source: Patrick Johnstone and Joshua Project |
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| People Group Top "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." In many parts of the world lack of understandability serves as the main barrier and it is appropriate to define people group primarily by language with the possibility of sub-divisions based on dialect or cultural variations. In other parts of the world, most notably in portions of South Asia, acceptance is a greater barrier than understandability. In these regions, caste, religious tradition, location, common histories and legends, plus language may be used to define the boundaries of each people group. Joshua Project uses the terms "people", "people group" and "ethnic people" synonymously. However, others may distinguish between the terms. Click here for further explanation. Third level of the ethnic peoples tree and coded as ROP3. Click here for a diagram of the ethnic peoples tree. Source: From 1982 Lausanne Committee Chicago meeting and Joshua Project. |
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| People-by-Country Top This counts a people group for each country it lives in. For example, the Tatar live in approximately 22 countries primarily in Central Asia. They would be counted 22 times. The total number of peoples-by-country is the most common answer to the question "How many people groups are there?" Peoples-by-Country form the fourth level of the ethnic peoples tree and coded as ROP3 + ROG3. Click here for a diagram. Source: Joshua Project |
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| Persecution
Ranking Top Open Doors ranking of persecution of Christians by country. The top 50 countries are ranked (1 = highest level of persecution) based on World Watch questionnaire. The questionnaire contains 49 questions covering various aspects of religious freedom, differentiating between the legal, official status of Christians and the actual situation. Attention is paid to the role of the church in society and the current situation facing individual Christians. Factors that may obstruct the freedom of religion in a country are also taken into account. The aim of the list is to paint a realistic picture of religious persecution in a country. A point value is assigned depending on how each question is answered. The total of points per country determines its position on the World Watch List. Areas without significant persecution do not have a ranking. Source: Open Doors |
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| Practicing
Believer Top Suggested alternate term for Evangelical above.
Source: U.S
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| What
is the Priority-Ranking and how is it derived? Top The Priority-Ranking (or Need-Ranking) was developed to identify the people groups that have the greatest spiritual need and priority attention. The higher the ranking the greater the need. The maximum score is 100 points. The following weighting was used:
People groups with Progress Scale values 3.1 and higher are not ranked. The Priority-Ranking data is available on the Joshua Project download page. Click here to view the PDF or Word version of the Joshua Project article "Which Peoples Need Priority Attention?" developed for the Nov-Dec 2004 issue of Mission Frontiers magazine. Source: Joshua Project
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What
do all these ROP, ROG, ROL terms mean? Top Registry of Geographic Places (ROG) Registry of Languages (ROL) Standardized versions of all these codes are available from the Harvest Information System website. |
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| SEPAL Progress Indicator Top Church Progress scale used in Brazil. |
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| Unreached / Least-Reached
People Group Top A people group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize this people group. The original Joshua Project editorial committee selected the critieria less than 2% Evangelical Christian and less than 5% Christian Adherents. While these percentage figures are somewhat arbitrary, there are some that suggest that the percentage of a population needed to be influenced to impact the whole group is 2%. (See comments in Christianity Today Nov 2003 issue, search for the phrase "2 percent".) Joshua Project uses the terms Unreached People Group (UPG) and Least-reached People Group interchangably. Click here for listing of 100 Largest Unreached / Least-reached Peoples-by-Country and other unreached queries. Note: For cases where % Evangelical and % Adherents data is unavailable for a people group, Joshua Project makes an estimate regarding the unreached / least-reached status of a people based on the country of location. Countries have been divided into two categories: 1) those with high likelihood of people groups in these countries being unreached / least-reached and 2) those with significant Christian presence and low likelihood of people groups in these countries being unreached / least-reached. Click here for a country classification listing. The classification of countries is based on a country's percent Evangelical, persecution rankings, primary religion, geographic location and security level. Where there are data gaps, Joshua Project is eager to update our unreached / least-reached status estimates with hard data. We welcome your feedback. Source: From 1982 Lausanne Committee Chicago meeting
and AD2000 & Beyond Movement.
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