Mission Impossible: The Unreached Nosu on Chinas Frontier

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In the chart found above we also see the number of foreign missionaries. Notice the dramatic increase in workers between and , the present stagnation and the projected massive growth over the next ten years and beyond. There is likely a correlation between the number of workers and the decrease in percentage of unevangelized. One could argue that the post-World War II surge in workers helped to bring down the percentage of unevangelized.

40 Years of Unreached Peoples Effort

Might this coming jump in workers once again speed up the rate of evangelization? Others believe that the reason for this apparent stalling of evangelization is that the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. And a likely derivative is that the remaining unreached peoples pose challenges that current methods have not overcome.


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But now we find ourselves in a new reality. We must say again that statistics are slippery and dogmatic statements based on the figures above would be foolhardy. However, perhaps it would be allowable to suggest that the reason for this sharp decline in evangelization is both quantitative and qualitative. Simply put, there are not enough workers. Many unreached people groups remain vastly underserved. But it goes far beyond more workers.

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From Jesus to Paul to Roland Allen to the present, how we go about evangelization matters. What paradigm-shifting changes need to take place within the frontier mission movement, in theory and practice, to see these last unreached peoples evangelized? Dear Reader, what will happen on our watch?

Mission Frontiers - 40 Years of Unreached Peoples Effort: Progress and Regress

Specialized mission efforts especially surrounding issues of justice have become the new darlings of mission activity, replacing the unreached peoples concept. To some extent, this is inevitable as new ideas always have more trending power than old ones. And of course, none of it is intentional. But the danger is in not recognizing that they are apples and oranges. As a result, we are not just replacing one mission trend with another, we are moving from what is strategic to what is tactical. If the two are separated, we can once again go back to doing very important Kingdom work in entirely reached and needy contexts.

Therefore, the unreached peoples concept cannot be seen as a trend, but as a biblically permanent fact of life and ministry. The very legitimacy of the people group concept is being seriously questioned. The argument here is that while the people group concept works well in rural areas, where there is homogeneity and clear social and cultural boundaries between peoples, it can no longer be applied to many urban settings, which contain complex mixtures of identity, making simple and coherent people group classification impossible. Without doubt, urban centers do create problems for people group classification.

Identities are morphing all the time, but the data is not one-sided in this direction since many ethnic communities maintain close ties even in such identity-threatening diversity. It seems that the jury is still out on how this will play out in any given situation. It is all very contextually defined, creating the need for field strategies on-the-fly. There has yet to appear any definitive study or alternative classification that would cause us to abandon the people group concept. It remains the best working model, even with its challenges. The term unreached has led to significant confusion.

Some misunderstand it to mean that no missionary has ever been to a group, i.

Others think that just because a people group is engaged that it is somehow reached. They disappear off the radar for many when they may in fact still need significant mission effort. A people group is only considered reached when there is a viable, indigenous community of believing Christians involved in a church planting movement with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize this people group without outside assistance.

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The term unreached has also been diluted by applying it to entities other than people groups e. Certainly individuals in these segments are lost but they are not unreached because they live within a culture where there is a viable church movement, thus they have ready access to the gospel message and discipleship.

There is at this very moment a kairos opportunity to catalyze breakthrough among the remaining unreached peoples. Those who have gone before us did not shrink back from great challenges. We at Frontier Ventures desire to continue working collaboratively and innovatively with the frontier mission movement, which is our family, the place where we find our identity and purpose.

We have much to learn from you, our friends and colleagues. May God bring us closer than ever before in true partnership so that the love and life that is found in Jesus may be freely offered to all, without coercion or constraint. And may the Lamb receive the reward of his suffering, not in years but in our generation. Learn more about Amazon Giveaway. The Unreached Nosu on China's Frontier. Set up a giveaway. There's a problem loading this menu right now. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime.

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