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People
Group Ministries and Research
Accelerating
International Mission Strategies
AIMS is a ministry that encourages, trains, mobilizes, networks and facilitates
the world-wide community of churches, agencies, other organizations and individuals
for strategic global evangelization. AIMS currently has 10 alliances, seven
of them focused on the 10/40 Window. AIMS offers seminars that focus on training
to become more missions minded, and a new seminar whose focus is on prayer
and how to better pray for the unreached peoples of the world.
Adopt-A-People
Campaign
The AAP Campaign provides a helpful introductory packet of information on
adopting an unreached people group, including “Seven Aspects of a Successful
Adoption,” and a list of sending and service agencies participating in
the campaign. Also produced by the AAP Campaign:
Adoption:
A Practical Guide to Successfully Adopting an Unreached People Group,
Bruce Camp, editor, 52 pp. This manual gives practical steps for incorporating
your adopted people group into the life of your church.
The Vision
for the Nations video curriculum: an 8- to 13-week Sunday School-level
introductory mission course based on the Perspectives Study Program.
Doing Your
Bit: a 10-minute AAP introductory video (contained also in the Vision
for the Nations curriculum).
Global Countdown
videos: India, Mexico, Cambodia and Central Asia; highlighting unreached
peoples and adopt-a-people stories from each country.
Adopt-A-People
Clearinghouse
A clearinghouse for unreached people group adoption information. Can give
helpful information and ideas on adoption. People group profiles for sale.
AD2000
and Beyond Movement
Among many other ministries, tracks which unreached people groups on the
Joshua Project 2000 list have been adopted or targeted by churches and mission
agencies. AD2000's Adoption Guidance Program & Mission Resource Kit are on
the web and the Light the Window CD-ROM. Highly recommended!
Advancing
Churches in Missions Committment
ACMC is a network of missions-active churches, through which your church can
get specific, practical assistance tailored to your church's global outreach
needs, including adoption. ACMC will help you mobilize your congregation,
build vision and help you become strategically involved in world evangelization.
Conferences, vision seminars, regional staff all very helpful. Most conferences
include adopt-a-people workshops.
The
Antioch Network
A fellowship of local churches that share ideas and strategies for initiating
church-planting movements among unreached people groups. Annual Gatherings
(August/September) are an excellent place for churches to learn and network
with others interested in the same part of the world.
Bethany
World Prayer Center
Brigada
People Group Consultant
Brigada
Research Assistant
Caleb
Project
Caleb Project staff are knowledgeable and well connected in the larger missions
community, and serve the Church in taking her part in the Great Commission.
Ministries include speaking and teaching, publishing books and videos, research
and advocacy for specific peoples. Caleb Project has a 30-minute video on
adopting unreached people groups, called Ordinary People/Extraordinary
Love: Building the Kingdom of God Through Adopting Unreached Peoples.
Co-produced with the AD2000 & Beyond Movement, this video profiles churches
that have adopted unreached peoples and how God has used them. CP also offers
Keys to the Nations: Articles to Inform, Guide, and Equip Advocates for the
Unreached (1998), a 250+ page notebook with more than 100 articles covering
a broad range of issues related to understanding unreached peoples, establishing
effective partnerships, facilitating people-group adoptions, maintaining security
and fundraising.
Denominational
Missions Organizations
Ethnologue
- Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL)
Jesus
Film
Global
Mapping International
Gospel
Recordings Network
Team
Expansion (Christian Church/Church of Christ)
This mission-sending agency is committed to mobilizing churches, through a
helpful seminar called “Pit Stop” for adoptive churches in the "PACE"
program. Seminar tapes, online versions are also available.
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