Lausanne World Pulse – Ethnê06 . . . Launching A Global Prayer and Strategy Initiative Focused on the Least Reached Peoples
By S. Kent Parks
Wholistic Gospel Movements (WGM) will develop integrated efforts among UPGs to see the body of Christ started, reproducing, serving and transforming their own communities and other unreached peoples, cities and nations.
Frontier Crisis Response Network (FCRN) will explore ways to cooperate in crisis situations including natural disasters, war, economic disasters and terrorist attacks in a way that will ultimately lead to gospel movements in transforming societies, especially through increased cooperation of crisis responders around the world.
Harvest-Linked Prayer Strategies will launch and facilitate the first year of an ongoing prayer and harvest initiative by (1) increasing awareness of the remaining 6,900+ Least-Reached Peoples (LRP), (2) connecting prayer movements to specific strategic initiatives and (3) developing models, resources and training globally.
LRP/UPG Workers in a Changing World will identify and offer solutions to challenges and issues related to placing, training and caring for laborers in various sending and receiving contexts among the LRPs/UPGs.
Program. Workshops during Ethnê06 will include: (1) Raising up the Next Generation of Mission Leaders, (2) People on the Move (nomads, immigrants, students, generations), (3) Communication Strategies for Missions, (4) Member Care among the LRPs, (5) Mission Mobilization Processes and Models (globally, locally, regionally) and (6) Information/Resources (opportunities, gaps and joint projects).
There will also be ten seminars during Ethnê06, including: (1-4) Strategy Group Reports, (5) Assess and Inform (Key Research, Gaps, Future Trends), (6) Maximizing Church-Centered Initiatives, (7) New Generation Leadership Transition in LRP Missions, (8) Partnership Principles, (9) Business as Mission and (10) Ethne: Shaping a LRP/UPG Global Network—Steps Forward.
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S. Kent Parks is facilitator for Lausanne’s Least Reached Peoples Special Interest Group. He also serves as co-facilitator for Ethnê06. Lausanne Occasional Paper No. 35, released by the 2004 Forum Issue Group on Hidden and Forgotten People (Least-Reached) is available online. (Document opens as a PDF file.) |