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| Joshua
Project Overview |
| Purpose -
The purpose and mission of Joshua Project |
| Track
Record - The history of Joshua Project |
| Distinctives -
What makes Joshua Project unique |
| Constituency -
Who Joshua Project serves |
| Deliverables
- What Joshua Project produces |
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Purpose
and Mission
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The mission of Joshua Project is to help bring definition
to the unfinished task of the Great Commission by identifying
and highlighting the people groups of the world that have
the least exposure to the Gospel and the least Christian
presence in their midst. Joshua Project gathers, integrates
and shares this information to encourage pioneer church-planting
movements among every ethnic people group. The goal of Joshua
Project is "to
spread a passion for the supremacy of GOD in all things for
the joy of all peoples through Jesus Christ" (borrowed
from Bethlehem
Baptist Church.)
Joshua Project compiles the work of numerous
missions researchers to develop as complete as possible list
of all ethnic peoples. Many errors, duplicates, overlaps
still exist and the data is continually being updated.
From this overall ethnic peoples list, Joshua
Project has identified a
list of unreached / least-reached peoples. This list helps
focus attention on the unfinished task of the Great Commission.
We desire that this list be used to accelerate the Gospel’s
impact into each of the least-reached people groups.
Joshua Project seeks to answer the questions that result
from the Great Commission’s call to make disciples
among every people:
1) Who are the ethnic people groups
of the world?
2) Which people groups still need an initial church-planting
movement in their midst?
3) What ministry resources are
available to help begin outreach among the least-reached?
Accurate, regularly updated ethnic people group information
is critical for understanding and completing the Great Commission
and for effective coordination of mission agency efforts. |
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Track
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Joshua Project was originally birthed within
the former AD2000 and Beyond Movement. The original Joshua
Project list was a cooperative and globally accepted
list of the largest unreached ethno-linguistic people groups
and related ministry activity data. The Joshua Project list
attempted to provide a clear goal of pioneer church-planting
among the largest unreached peoples. Joshua Project has since
expanded this list to all unreached / least-reached peoples
regardless of size and moved from a purely ethno-linguistic
to an ethnic people focus. Click here for definitions. |
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Distinctives
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• Strategic
- We help mission strategists who ask, "Where is the greatest
need?" Our desire is to help focus the Church on the
most spiritually needy ethnic people groups.
• Effective
- We seek to
leverage and maximize the effectiveness of other Kingdom resources
by helping identify and reduce duplication of effort between
ministries through information sharing.
• Comprehensive
- Our emphasis is on comprehensiveness, to see that the Church
is initially established in all the world's ethnic people groups.
Our methodology has been “when in doubt include a people
group on the list” to insure that no groups are overlooked.
• Neutral - We are a neutral, low profile ministry,
serving the global missions community.
• Grassroots
- We support grass-roots initiatives, seeking involvement with
those laborers actually doing the work. Continual updating
is most accurately done by local and national researchers.
• Openhanded - We provide all data and services at no
charge, making it possible for individuals and agencies in
all parts of the world to have access. |
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Constituency
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We serve missions agencies, denominations, churches, and
individuals around the world that have a heart for pioneer
church-planting among the world’s least-reached people
groups. Data is gathered from a worldwide constituency of
field workers and their agencies, brought together into a
common database, and within security guidelines, provided
free of charge to the global Church.
Regular users and providers of Joshua Project data include:
international researchers and church-planters, local churches
and individuals, denominations and mission agencies. Field workers
utilize the information for building prayer and project support
for their ministries and discovering what ministry tools
may be available. Local churches see value for missions
mobilization, and for finding agencies with whom they can
partner to see pioneer churches established among unreached
/ least-reached people groups. Mission agencies use the data
to strategically determine where to send new church-planting
teams and for partnership development to avoid duplication
and waste of kingdom resources.
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Deliverables
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- A complete list of the world’s ethnic
people groups with Christian progress status indicators.
- From this overall list is generated a list of all unreached / least-reached ethnic
people groups regardless of size with a set of strategic church-planting status indicators and ministry tool availability data.
- Profiles of all ethnic people groups.
- Country specific data related to Christian status, persecution rankings, human development index, economic levels and religious makeup.
- User-defined selection of people group data. Select people group information by
population, geographic area, religion, status, ministry
resource availablity including Bible translation status,
the Jesus Film, Gospel audio recordings, and Christian
radio broadcast access.
- A user-friendly software program for viewing, querying and reporting of available Joshua Project data.
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