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Joshua Project Strategic Alliances

Movement of African National Initiatives (MANI)

Joshua Project is pleased to partner with the Movement of African National Initiatives. MANI is an African movement, a network of networks and African National Initiatives, focused on catalyzing African National Initiatives and mobilizing the resources of the Body of Christ in Africa for the fulfillment of the Great Commission.

MANI's stated purpose is to affirm, motivate, mobilize and network Christian leaders by inspiring them with the vision of reaching the unreached and least evangelized in Africa, and the wider world, through the communication of up to date research, reports and models; consultations and prayer efforts focusing on the unfinished task.

The MANI Vision is that: "...(Africa) be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea" Habakuk 2:14.

Etnopedia

Joshua Project and Etnopedia, while distinct initiatives, serve the same vision. They seek to help inform the church worldwide about 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.

The approaches used by these two ministries are unified and connected so as to work in conjunction and varied so as to focus on their respective emphases and thus avoid duplication. For Joshua Project that focus is on updateable statistics for a comprehensive list of peoples. For Etnopedia that focus is to provide a translation platform and multilingual set of people profiles for collaboration in a web community.

Global Research Initiatives

The major global missions people, language and country databases are seeking closer partnership and data sharing. This includes the World Christian Database, International Mission Board, Ethnologue, Operation World and Joshua Project. Each with its own distinctive, these initiatives are working in cooperation. Together these efforts hope to soon:

develop a statement of unity
create documents regarding the distinctiveness of each effort
circulate regular change update notifications where possible
implement the Affinity Bloc / People Cluster scheme across all data sets

Unreached People Profile

Sanaani, Northern Yemeni of Yemen

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Photo Source: Richard Messenger. Some rights reserved.

Mission Question

How many Muslim people groups in Indonesia do not have Scripture portions or the Jesus Film and are unreached?
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Missions Scripture

"This gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations and then the end will come."
Matthew 24:14

Unreached Peoples Fact

The 15th Edition of the Ethnologue indicates there are 6,938 living languages in the world, of which 443 are nearly extinct.

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Stories from the Field

A 62 year old, illiterate man in Nepal, an important witch doctor all his life, became a believer 3 months ago. In the TCPT workshop he heard the story ..." Continue

Source: God's Story

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