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This past week, Dan and the guys at Joshua Project released a revised progress scale.  They wrote, “For simplicity and clarity we have moved from a four-color to a three-color scale.  The new colors are

Red = Unreached / Least-Reached
Yellow = Nominal / Formative church
Green = Established / Significant church

A summary of these progress levels is [...]

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Were you already thinking of signing up for Joshua Project’s “Unreached People of the Day?” If so, might as well use the link at…
http://prayfortheunreached.com/
For every new signer-upper, the site is giving a dollar to Joshua Project (up to $514).

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What’s your favorite tool at …
http://www.joshuaproject.net
Mine is the People Group Finder at…
http://joshuaproject.net/people-selector.php
Why? Because it gives you absolute power to choose the region, the country, whether or not you just want 10/40 Window people groups, a population filter (e.g., greater than 10,000 people), the primary religion, % of Christian adherents, or % of evangelical, unreached status, [...]

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Did you know that there are around 300 languages spoken in Mexico and Global Recordings Network has recorded the gospel in many of them? Check out their web site at:
http://www.globalrecordings.net
and type Mexico under “Find by Country” Better yet….Join them for one week to one month during February, giving CD’s and playing recordings of the Gospel [...]

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Would you like to work among unreached people groups for a year but don’t have much of any financial support – No Problem! Don’t have specialized training – No Problem! Don’t know how to get permission to stay in a restricted nation for a year – No Problem! Mark and Janet just returned from an [...]

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Etnopedia is an exciting new project involving Christians from around the world in the translation of unreached people profiles. You can translate, or help out with research. You can also request to add another portal so that you can translate people profiles into your own language! Visit the Etnopedia website
http://www.etnopedia.org/
to find out how to get [...]

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I was thinking today about the quality job that the “Indonesian Peoples Network” (IPN) did with their book, Indonesian People Profiles: Unreached People Groups. It’s colorful, practical, informative, and comprehensive. Seemingly modeled somewhat after the Bethany Prayer Profiles that went around a few years ago, these people groups are, in a word, simply better. They’re [...]

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An international partnership that supports Kingdom efforts among the Kyrgyz people of Central Asia will hold its annual conference on May 1-2 in the Mid-Atlantic region. For security reasons, first time attendees will be asked to provide a church reference. Contact them ASAP at

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The 2009 Kaz Consultation will be held April 24 & 25 at Christian Fellowship Church, Evansville, IN. Visit their website at
http://www.KZCON2009.org
to register or call 270.826.7236 for information. Organizers are encouraging those with expertise in Business As Mission in KAZ to be part of this consultation. They add, “Evansville is great in April!”

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Advocates for the Mbalantu are thrilled. You see, for years, they’ve been praying for this time. In October, an association from Texas adopted the Mbalantu. The first group to visit and survey this area will arrive in Namibia in February. Pray for their safe travel. It is not a quick flight to Namibia and once [...]

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They have three “departments”: Church Activation, Front Line Services and International Connections. WorldconneX does not send missionaries. WorldconneX helps churches send missionaries. Their vision is to help churches discover their strategic uniqueness for the Kingdom (church activation), establish effective connections for strategic impact (international connections), and send their people long term anywhere in the world [...]

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Never fear… Dan’s still here. Yes, “AD2000 & Beyond” is long gone… but the research arm that began during their tenure is still hard at work. Dan the man is still there, heading up a broad-based initiative to get you the best information possible on any people group you can imagine. Check his work… and [...]

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Bill will tell you plain and simple — his passion is for the 40 million unreached Azerbaijani people of Azerbaijan and Iran. He raises interest regularly for the North American Azerbaijani Network, whose goal is to raise awareness among the Church in North America of the need for mission amongst this people group.http://www.azerbaijanipartnership.org/
Bill’s life leads [...]

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Namibia has elected officials but it also has a system of chiefs for the different people groups. Recently, a debate arose and continues over which leader should be chief. Maybe this can serve as a reminder of Namibia’s need for the chief of chiefs. Pray for the unreached peoples of Namibia. As they search for [...]

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Excitement is the only word to describe what is about to happen in northwest Namibia. In April and May you prayed for an association leader from Texas as he visited this part of Namibia to investigate the possibility of his association adopting one of the Forgotten People of Namibia. They have decided to adopt the [...]

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It’s not too late to register for the International Turkey Network’s 2008 American Conference, November 13-15, in Mesa, Arizona. Join with several hundred long-term partners working in Turkey. GUESTS include a Turkish evangelist currently on trial for Bible distribution, a Turkish pastor and a veteran worker responsible for multiple successful church plants.Hear about and connect [...]

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*** An 18 year-old runway who has just taken his first hit of heroin, trying to escape a past he’d rather forget, while also wrestling with a future that seems hopeless.*** A young, successful financial advisor who seems to have everything, but constantly searches for something to fulfill his empty life.*** A 52 year-old Vietnam [...]

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The “Forgotten Peoples” website has recently been revised and updated. Pray that many people will use this site to learn about the Unengaged Peoples of Namibia. Pray that they will learn about the Herero, the Mbalantu, the Coloured of Namibia, and the Nama. Pray that these Unengaged Peoples will soon have a witness for the [...]

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Don, an unselfish pastor, wrote this past week with an offer few are willing to make: “Use my material!” See his site at
http://www.prayforup.com/
He added, “Change it to eliminate any reference to me or mine. Make it a page on your own site. Why? You will be promoting the most powerful evangelistic tool known: congregational prayer [...]

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To Every Tribe Ministries is pleased to announce that Dr. John Piper will be a featured speaker along with the founder of TETM, and a host of others. It’ll take place October 18-19, 2008 at High Pointe Baptist Church in Austin, Texas. It aims to make much of Christ, to challenge believers to pursue the [...]

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The Oshiwambo, of which the Mbalantu are a part, homestead had many traditional practices, many of which are still followed today. One of these involved the setting of a new homestead for a young man and his first wife. The first thing to be done was making a fire at the place where the kraal [...]

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Allan is a People Group Advocate looking for tips regarding software that might help him do a better job. The people group has experienced significant migration, with pockets of people now in scores of localities in about 30 states in Mexico and the US. He is looking for a more integrated way to keep track [...]

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