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Title: The Question: Which unreached people groups is God askin


1
Adopt-A-People
  • How you can strategically impact an
  • unreached people group.

2
Blessed churches
  • Dr Mike Buehlers of Westminsters Presbyterian
    Church says concerning the churches adopting of
    the Zoque people of Chiapas, Mexico As we have
    given ourselves and our resources to these
    people, our giving and our attendance have
    increased. Our missions budget has increased over
    40 percent because people have had a chance to
    get a hands-on experience in reaching people from
    another culture for Christ and they see the
    needs

3
Discovering Gods plan for your church
  • The Question Which unreached people groups is
    God asking your church to accept responsibility
    for?

4
Term and definitions. What do we mean by
Adoption?
  • The Adopt-A-People program is a church-to-field
    partnering program designed to develop strong
    identification and involvement between a church
    and an unreached people. Adoption itself is the
    commitment of the church and its members to see
    the establishment of a strong and growing church
    movement among a specific unreached people group.
  • This program can go by many names Focus On A
    People, Serve a people, People group
    partnering, ministry partnership, etc.

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Term and definitions. What do we mean by
Adoption?
  • People Group (or people) A significantly large
    ethnic or sociological grouping of individuals
    who perceive themselves to have a common affinity
    with one another. For evangelistic purposes, it
    is the largest group within which the gospel can
    spread as a church planting movement without
    encountering barriers of understanding or
    acceptance.
  • Unreached People (sometimes called Hidden
    Peoples) a people group which has no indigenous
    community of believing Christians with adequate
    numbers and resources to finish evangelizing
    their community without further
    outside/cross-cultural assistance.

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Adopting a people group isA way to get directly
involved, A way to focus.
  • Caring for a people
  • Different than yourself
  • Who dont have a strong church yet
  • More than just caring for a missionary
  • Commitment
  • To Gods program for the world
  • To an unreached people group
  • To do everything possible to see this people
    reached

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Adopting a people group isA way to get directly
involved, A way to focus.
  • Involvement
  • Directly with a people group
  • All members of the church in the lives of this
    people
  • Partnership With
  • Mission agencies
  • Missionaries on the field
  • Other churches and individuals with a similar
    commitment

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A successful adoption requires
  • 1. A champion
  • 2. Enthusiastic support of the pastoral staff
  • 3. Knowledge of missions and frontier missions in
    particular
  • 4. The involvement of the congregation in all
    phases of the adoption

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A successful adoption requires
  • 5. Waiting on the Lord for His direction
  • 6. A look at the congregation itself,
  • Who you are
  • What God is doing through you already?
  • What you believe God wants to do through you.
  • 7. A partnership with a mission agency and their
    mission field personal

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Getting Started
  • Not one set way to do this
  • This happens in many different and wonderful ways
    in different churches.
  • Theres a lot of room here for a creative person
    to become involved
  • The program normally begins with a church getting
    introduced to the concept through
  • A missionary, pastor, a people group advocate or
    missions speaker who brings the idea
  • From taking a Perspective Class or other
    curriculum like the Vision for the Nations class.
  • Hearing about the blessing of an adoption in
    another church

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How it normally begins
  • 1 An interested person takes up the cause to
    promote it in the church and in the process
    become the people group champion to lead the
    program
  • Or this interested person inspires, encourages,
    and motivates another to become the people group
    champion in the church
  • 2 This champion sees that the foundations for a
    successful program are present or are developed.
    Some of these are
  • The pastor and pastoral staff understands and
    fully supports the program.
  • The proper governing structures in the church
    consider and support the program
  • On going education of the congregation in
    frontier missions and the adoption strategy.

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Beginning
  • 1. Evaluation of the church, what God is doing in
    it and what He wants to do.
  • 2. Relationships are established with mission
    sending agencies seeking help, information ad
    guidance in this program including names of
    people groups for possible adoption
  • 3. Contact is made with the AAP assisting
    agencies seeking information, assistance and AAP
    resources.
  • 4. The concept of adoption is introduced to the
    congregation at large.
  • 5. A list of potential people groups to adopt is
    developed
  • 6. The church consider what kind of adoption it
    want to be involved in and how.

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Determining the people group for the church
  • 1. This is determined largely by the churchs
    evaluation of who they are and what they believe
    God wants them to do.
  • 2. Extensive prayer is given by the church
    leaders and the congregation based on information
    they are learning about missions and people
    groups.
  • 3. Consideration of the bridges to people
    groups that exist already within the congregation.

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Bridges
  • a. Missionaries that the church already supports
    or may support.
  • b. The vision or burden of the pastor
  • c. Denominational relationship and loyalties
  • d. Mission agencies the church already has
    relations with
  • e. People of other nationalities that God has
    brought to be a part of the church or live in the
    vicinity of the church
  • f. The country or people-group interests that
    already exist in the church
  • g. The people or nations the church has make
    contact with while on short-term mission trips
  • h. Successful sister church adoption
  • i. Occupational or geographic closeness

15
Developing
  • Communicate to the congregation the different
    stages the planning group is going through
  • At this stage a vision building trip to the
    targeted people group is often helpful
  • A critical mass needs to develop in the
    congregation concerning which group is right for
    them

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Formal adoption
  • Notify your partnering mission agency of your
    selection.
  • Conduct a formal adoption service.
  • Notify the Adopt-a-People Clearinghouse of your
    adoption

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Recommended parts of an ongoing adoption
  • 1. The people-group advocate is formally
    recognized
  • a. with formal accountability to the proper
    governing body in the church
  • b. is the point person for the people-group
    ministry in the church.
  • c. A people-group committee should be formed
    which would work with this people-group advocate.
  • 2. Establish a regular prayer fellowship for the
    group.
  • a. The people-group advocate could lead this
  • b. This advocate will have current information on
    what is happening in the group

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Recommended parts of an ongoing adoption
  • 3 Regularly involve the congregation at every
    possible level of what is happening in the group.
  • 4. Network with others who relate to your people
    group (on the field and at home)
  • 5. Become informed about the adopted people
    group. Become an expert on everything that
    relates to the people.

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Parts of a maturing program
  • 1. Recruit other churches to adopt this people
    group and to partner with you.
  • 2. Send church members on short-term mission
    trips to minister to your people group.
  • This in conjunction with the field missionaries
  • 3. Look for members of this people group in the
    United States--or in your country and reach out
    to them.
  • 4. Send the church's own permanent missionaries
    to this group.

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Parts of a maturing program
  • 5. Assist in seeing specific projects begun
    through the mission agencies and missionaries on
    the field.
  • 6. Raise funds to support missionaries on the
    field and for their special projects.
  • 7. Involve the members of the church. The more
    the members are involved, the more it will impact
    them and make a difference in their lives.

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Resources to understand and promote adoption
  • Videos
  • Ordinary People Extraordinary Love by Caleb
    Project
  • The Father's Love by the Adopt-A-People
    Clearinghouse
  • Doing Your Bit by the Adopt-A-People Campaign
    USCWM
  • CDs
  • Adoption Guidance Program by the AD 2000 and
    Beyond Movement
  • Book
  • Adoption A Practical Guide by the
    Adopt-A-People Campaign USCWM
  • Videos and books
  • by various denominations and missions agencies
    explaining their adoption programs

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Agencies to assist in adoption
  • Mission agencies you are familiar with
  • Your Denominations mission board
  • Adopt-A-People service agencies
  • Adopt-a-People Clearinghouse
  • Adopt-a-People Campaign USCWM
  • Antiock Network
  • Caleb Project
  • Emerging Young leaders
  • Issachar Frontier Mission Strategies
  • For contact information and agencies
  • See Adopt-A-People.org
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