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Following are suggested steps for research, personal outreach & church planting
among the "diaspora peoples" God has brought to live in your city.
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- Guidance in discovering the peoples of your city
- Insight into which people He would have you to reach out to
- Connections with others engaging this people somewhere else
- Awakened hearts, willingness to prepare for outreach and love for your particular people group
- A strong prayer covering from the rest of the congregation
- A godly outreach and church-planting team with a synergistic blend of giftings
- Open hearts among your people group, that they would be drawn to Christ and an indigenous church planted among them
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- Ethnic Harvest's articles and book links will provide good study material on cross-cultural outreach and church planting. See also, The Nations Have Come to Us for additional listings.
- Here's Life (CCC/Australia) provides a great web site with excellent step-by-step training and links to powerful tools for reaching out in love with the Gospel to multi-cultural communities.
- Crossing Cultures (Booklet), Cross-Cultural Servanthood (Book/Notes), Scattered to Gather (Booklet), and The Kempei Game are great for learning how to effectively reach out and communicate cross-culturally. Each has a specific strength, so be sure to take advantage of them all.
- ethNYcity is a web site highlighting ethNYcity, the book, containing 82 people group profiles extracted from coordinated research throughout the various burroughs and neighborhoods of New York City. Consider this a powerful tool to provoke the Church in your city to become acquainted with the peoples in your midst and create a similar compendium.
- City Vision (Minneapolis/St. Paul) provides an excellent citywide model for what can be done to research, mobilize, train and network for cross-cultural outreach and church planting within a city.
- Ethnic America Network holds a major national ethnic summit in a different city each year; has involved over sixty evangelical denominations and agencies; focuses on reaching diaspora communities in America with the gospel of Jesus Christ and promotes reconciliation and unity among diverse people groups.
- ACMI (the Association of Christians Ministering among Internationals) conducts an annual national conference and provides a helpful web site of resources for those ministering among International Students. Click here to find their listing of international student ministers & volunteers at a school near you.
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- INTRODUCTION: Identifying and Reaching Ethnic Groups in the City by Anthony Casey
- RESEARCH TRAINING: Connecting with a People by USAPeopleGroups.com equips you with three levels of training: EXAMINE – Surfacing people group indicators — signs that point to the existence of people groups within a specific city or urban area — and to get that information into the hands of people who have a heart to reach out with the love of Jesus Christ.
ENCOUNTER – Discovering the specific people groups who reside within the specific locale, verifying the existence, demographic size, and evangelical presence (if any) among them.
ENGAGE – Engaging unreached people groups with the Gospel message and helping partners network with others who are engaging the same or similar people groups.
- RESEARCH & NETWORKING DATA : Peoplegroups.info is a database and helps center for discovering peoples in your city by zip code using data from the US Census. This site is also the beginning of a national database for reporting and networking with researchers and outreach/ church-planting ministries in your community. Click here for some helpful FAQs ... but be patient, this site has been slow to download.
- RESEARCH: Global Missiology's Diaspora pages will link you to many resources and prominent immigrant people-group information links.
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- OUTREACH TOOLS: Cross-Cultural Outreach Tools
Bibles, Literature and other media in various languages
- OUTREACH TOOL: Alpha for ESOL
Alpha for ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages) provides an easy way to discuss some of the most asked questions of life and faith. The course is in English but made more accessible in format and vocabulary. The course consists of a meal, a talk on a topic like prayer, or healing, and time to discuss your thoughts with your fellow guests every 10-15 minutes.
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- Caleb Encounter's Advocacy Training equips youto advocate for your people group. (Awaiting word on product availability)
- Connect your members with vision-casting and vision-building literature, training opportunities and outreach tools (Essentially, after studying yourself, use the best articles, books and outreach tools to pass on to others).
- Scattered to Gather's chapter on "Next Steps" (starting on page 32) contains a very well thought out list of ways to engage the peoples God has brought to your city.
- By the grace of God, and combining persistent prayer, diligent training, team building and research, God will eventually bring together the key factors and connections you need to engage in fruitful outreach and church planting.
- Peoplegroups.info ideally is set up to report on your work in progress, allowing other churches to discover your work and vice versa, so that potential networking/partnerships and synergy can take place for the benefit of the people you are reaching.
- Keep praying with vigilence and watchfulness for the enemy will never cease to look for ways to derail or halt your progress.
Click here for excellent articles, books and training on prayer.
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