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Is the World Still a Waffle? A MAGAZINE OF FRONTIER VENTURES | missionfrontiers.org ISSUE 43:5 SEPT/OCT 2021 Is The World Still A Waffle? 1375 KNOWN KINGDOM MOVEMENTS MISSION FRONTIERS SEPT/OCT 2021 ISSUE Urbanization and Measuring Editorial: Is the World Still a Waffle? the Remaining Task Dan Scribner 04 30 Justin Long People Group Lists and the Response to Urbanization and Challenge of Growing Complexity Measuring the Remaining Task 08 Dan Scribner 32 Dave Earl Datema Are Current People Group Seeing the Unreached World Presentations Engaging the As It Really Is Next Generation? Paul Hattaway 12 34 An Interview with Andrew Feng How People Group Information A Small Shift with Potential Impacted a Mission Agency Significant Impact 15 Tim Freeman 36 Dan Scribner People Group Information Toward the Edges in an African Context Kevin Higgins CONTENTS 17 George Gumah 39 More Lists, More Data, 24:14 Coalition Update More Possibilities Stan Parks 20 Rodrigo Tinoco 40 Fresh Vision for the Multiply Rapidly and Still Great Commission Make Healthy Disciples? 23 Danny Weiss 44 C. Anderson People Groups and the Nigeria What If… Evangelical Missions Association Greg Parsons 26 Adeoluwa Olanrewaju 49 Why South Asia People Group Data Looks So Different 28 Bill Morrison and South Asia Researcher 52 Unreached of the Day Mission Frontiers is published six times a year. Rick Wood, Editor Call 888-881-5861 for subscriptions, address changes Taya Johnson, Production Coordinator (714-226-9782 for Canada and overseas) Mike Riester, Graphic Design Email [email protected]; Photos from Unsplash.com, unless otherwise noted. Order online: www.missionfrontiers.org, choose subscribe. Cover photo by Davies Designs, pixabay.com Editorial Office: [email protected] Photos on pages 38, 43, 48, 52, 59, 60, and 64 are from VOL.43, NO.5 SEPT/OCT 2021 ISSN 0889-9436 Advertising: [email protected] the International Mission Board Website: www.missionfrontiers.org Contents © 2021 by Frontier Ventures SUBSCRIBE Address: 1605 E. Elizabeth St. • Pasadena, CA 91104 Frontier Ventures is a member of MissioNexus and Evangelical Press Association (EPA). To subscribe to Mission Frontiers, go to www.missionfrontiers.org and click on the SUBSCRIBE button on the top of the page. MISSION FRONTIERS SEPT/OCT 2021 Is The World Still A Waffle? Dan Scribner ([email protected]) has served as the Joshua Project Team Leader since its BY DAN SCRIBNER founding in 1995. Dan and his wife Mary have been on the staff of Frontier Ventures (formerly USCWM) since 1988. They live in Colorado and have four children and three grandchildren. Mission mobilizers began describing other datasets to produce a visual Mission mobilizers the world as a waffle rather than a prioritization tool. The first half of this began describing the pancake. Previously, the view that Mission Frontiers issue is only a small world as a waffle rather we could “pour enough syrup on sampling of how the Lord has used than a pancake. the pancake to fully cover it” meant people group information to advance we simply needed to send enough His kingdom. missionaries, do enough evangelism, plant enough churches and eventually The world is a very different place than I stared at the booklet on the desk in the Great Commission would be it was nearly 50 years ago when the utter amazement. It was November fulfilled. But the world really was a people group paradigm was birthed. 1991. I was sitting in the prayer waffle with very significant barriers Should the missions community room in Hudson Taylor Hall on the to the spread of the gospel; the still view the world as a waffle? campus of the U.S. Center for sweetness of the gospel did not Is traditional ethnolinguistic people World Mission. My prayer shift was EDITORIAL automatically go everywhere; many group thinking still relevant? There are from midnight to 4:00 a.m. It was pockets of people were untouched definite challenges moving forward: now 2:30. As I turned the pages of the booklet, I struggled to after nearly 2,000 years. People group • Urbanization is blurring, if comprehend what I was seeing. lists and information were needed if not eliminating, traditional the Church were to fully understand people group boundaries. Is The booklet was an early list of the scope of “making disciples of all the traditional people group the largest ethnolinguistic people the nations.” perspective relevant in a megacity? groups who apparently had little, if any, exposure or response to the Since then, several people group lists • Globalization is allowing gospel: page after page showed have emerged, each with unique the free-flow and mixing of the distinct “nations” without any definitions, purposes and audiences. ethnicities, ideas, worldviews meaningful presence of Jesus Christ Except for South Asia, these people and cultures. group lists are primarily ethno- in their midst. How could it be that, • There is a growing call for linguistic, with language being the after nearly 2,000 years, so many recognition of the greater primary factor in defining a people people groups were still unreached? granularity of dynamic, group. These people group lists Little did I know that booklet would hybrid people groups in which have had a significant impact on change the next 30 years of my life. groupings are not defined the missions world. Don’t miss the by language but by different Dr. Ralph Winter’s watershed articles from Asian, African and Latin “glue”. Can current tracking of address at Lausanne ’74 challenged American voices sharing how people people groups handle greater the worldwide mission community group thinking and information complexity? to view the world, not primarily have impacted their ministries. Read as geo-political nations, but as how people group data motivated • Mobility is creating new distinct ethnic peoples each needing and transformed a mission agency. diaspora dynamics. Is it more a unique church-planting effort. Another article highlights how people helpful to view people groups A fresh paradigm was birthed. group data is being combined with globally than by country? 4 MISSIONFRONTIERS.ORG EDITORIAL When does a diaspora group Is the world still a waffle? Traditional in print and by mobile app, email, become a distinct people group people group lists are still very podcast and printable PDF at from the homeland group? applicable in parts of the world unreachedoftheday.org. dominated by formal and informal • Language consolidation is May the Lord stir hearts in prayer caste structures and in tribal and rural reducing linguistic barriers and rooms in Lagos, Rio de Janeiro settings. This includes significant movements to Jesus are crossing and Mumbai, leading to a fresh parts of Africa and Asia, where the traditional people group barriers. wave of people group thinking and great majority of Unreached People • Accurate, updated information information-tracking. Regardless of Groups reside. is difficult to obtain. How can how people groups are defined, the crowdsourcing and collaboration At the same time, the traditional waffle Lamb is worthy of worship from be leveraged to refine and update barriers are changing. Global trends every tribe, tongue, nation and people group data? are creating new social dynamics people. Soli Deo Gloria. • Current people group lists and changing both the barriers and and presentations may not be boundaries by which groups are impacting younger generations. defined. New hybrid, trans-national and dynamic groupings must be • We see a need for much greater considered for evangelistic purposes, space for Global South researchers Disciple Making and Church and people group data managers Planting Movements. to not simply come alongside existing efforts, but also to take Most of the material in this issue is the lead and set the agenda, important in shaping our thinking. bringing fresh insight and vitality. But be alert for heart knowledge The second half of this issue of as well as head knowledge; Mission Frontiers gives a glimpse don’t overlook the heart-engaging into a few of these challenges. Space Unreached of the Day prayer section. limits extensive exploration of all It has been said that prayer is the these topics, but hopefully some of “first domino” in reaching the these articles will stimulate further unreached. The Unreached of the dialogue regarding people group Day is a simple and practical way information in a changing world. to be involved. It is available here 5 MISSION FRONTIERS SEPT/OCT 2021 Is the World Still a Waffle? 6 MISSIONFRONTIERS.ORG Is the World Still a Waffle? 7 MISSION FRONTIERS SEPT/OCT 2021 People Group Lists and the Challenge of Growing Complexity Dan Scribner ([email protected]) has served as the Joshua Project Team Leader since its BY DAN SCRIBNER founding in 1995. Dan and his wife Mary have been on the staff of Frontier Ventures (formerly USCWM) since 1988. They live in Colorado and have four children and three grandchildren. A Brief History of Global People Group Lists Three global people group No comprehensive, global list of people groups existed when Dr. Ralph lists have emerged. Winter gave his landmark presentation at Lausanne ’74. Partial lists began to be developed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since then, three global people group lists have emerged: • Center for the Study of Global Christianity’s World Christian Database (WCD) • International Mission Board SBC’s Church Planting Progress Indicators (CPPI) database1 • Joshua Project (JP) database These three lists have different definitions,
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