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Monday, 09 November 2009
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Week of Nov 8th - Shaikh (Marathi) of India
This continues a series that will focus on an unreached people group. These are the bottom 40 Least-engaged Peoples, meaning that there is no ministry known to be going on within the group. According to the population number, every 50,000 people is assigned a potential missionary, so, you can see how many missionaries are needed for each peoples. Here is the fourth group:
Shaikh (Marathi) of India
Population: 2,335,683
Religion: Islam
Missionaries Needed: 46
Adopted?: Yes.
Language: Marathi
Bible?: Yes, completed.
Monday, 02 November 2009
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Week of Nov 1st - Bhenrihar of India
This continues a series that will focus on an unreached people group. These are the bottom 40 Least-engaged Peoples, meaning that there is no ministry known to be going on within the group. According to the population number, every 50,000 people is assigned a potential missionary, so, you can see how many missionaries are needed for each peoples. Here is the second group:
Bhenrihar of India
Population: 4,264,429
Religion: Hinduism
Missionaries Needed: 85
Adopted?: Yes.
Language: Wagdi
Bible?: No Jesus Film. Radio Programs. New Testament since 2000Finding a description about this people group is kind of tough. I'm still on the hunt for something to post on here.
Thursday, 29 October 2009
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Poem: Emerging (10/29/09)
Emerging
by Sarah ><>
October 29th, 2009
On the tip of my brain
Sits a poem only half-formed.It has been on the verge of being written
But lacks a common thread or substance.
Inspiration...The change of the seasons are a muse
As is Prokofiev, green tea, and daffodils.
When peering out into nature
To watch God's amazing workmanship
Words drip into the sky
And peek out from behind the trees.These fleeting moments of clarity
Are so difficult to grasp,
But their memory leaves a taste in my mind
And can't help but make me thirst for the something greater.Like the dark shadows shining down from the clouds
Between the bright rays of the sun.
Or the resonance of a string on my violin
With the tamborine atop the piano.The sound rushes through the air and finds a kindred voice
And the two shake with joy at their meeting,
Lifting my heart with them
And laughter bursting forth.Observing the absurd and giggling
Deeply until I must gasp for air.God, the beautiful painter,
Who made the colors to complement each other.
He put red flowers on stalks of green;
Purple and yellow wildflowers
Scatter themselves and dance along the highway,Crowned with caps of white.
Trees containing one hundred shades of orange, gold,
And vibrant, burning embers of scarlet
Against a vastness of blue
And a trunk of black.Each leaf then holds a secret;
Each flower petal an answer,And my eyes flit over them oft unaware
Of such a great mystery.
Oh, grant me the liberty to write such a verse
That would do justice to these trappings
Beating out of my heart.A calling, a whisper,
A rampant longing for the glorious.
Sunday, 25 October 2009
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Week of Oct 25th - Crimean Turkish of Turkey
This continues a series that will focus on an unreached people group. These are the bottom 40 Least-engaged Peoples, meaning that there is no ministry known to be going on within the group. According to the population number, every 50,000 people is assigned a potential missionary, so, you can see how many missionaries are needed for each peoples. Here is the second group:
Crimean Turkish of Turkey
Population: 5,097,667
Religion: Islam
Missionaries Needed: 101
Adopted?: Yes.
Language: Crimean Tatar
Bible?: New Testament onlyThe Crimean Tatars are Turkic people who inhabited the Crimean peninsula, now a part of Ukraine, for over seven centuries. They established their own Khanate in the 1440s and remained an important power in Eastern Europe until 1783, when Crimea was annexed to Russia. During World War II, the entire Tatar population in Crimea fell victims to Stalin's oppressive policies. In 1944 they were unjustly accused of being Nazi collaborators and deported en masse to Central Asia and other lands of the Soviet Union. Many died of disease and malnutrition. Although a 1967 Soviet decree removed the charges against Crimean Tatars, the Soviet government did nothing to facilitate their resettlement in Crimea and to make reparations for lost lives and confiscated property.
http://www.euronet.nl/users/sota/krimtatar.html
The Crimean Tatar have fled and settled in many countries as Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Uzbekistan, Western Europe, the Middle East, and North America. Living as those who are exiled from their homelands, they are strangers in a strange land, seeking to preserve their cultural identity and yet make a living and survive to pass on that heritage to their children. Pray that someone would be raised up to reach these people among the Turkish.
Monday, 19 October 2009
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Currently
Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit
By Francis Chan
see relatedWeek of Oct 18th - Mahisyadas of India
This will begin a series of informative blogs on the 40 Least-engaged Peoples according to Finishing the Task, an article published in Mission Frontiers in preparation for Tokyo 2010, a conference of mission leaders from around the world to discuss how to strategically evangelize the globe. I will do my best to investigate and add information about each group throughout the week focusing on them. I will list the population and the religion. The missionaries needed is determined by the number 50,000 population blocks within each group. A group is determined "adopted" if a mission agency took the name in 2000 at the Billy Graham conference on evangelization with the intent of starting a ministry among the LPG. So, here is the first group:
Mahisyadas of India
Population: 11,964,538
Religion: Hinduism
Missionaries Needed: 239
Adopted: Yes
Language: Bengali
The Mahisyadas of India live throughout the state of West Bengal and the surrounding areas. They are ethnic Bengalis. They are a land owning caste and their traditional occupation is agriculture. Their main crops are rice and millet. The vast majority of Mahisyadas are Hindu. Lakshmi, Dharmarah, Manasa, and Shiva are the most popularly worshipped deities of the Mahisyadas. They have a relatively high literacy rate.
Added 10/19:
The Mahisyadas are considered a "Scheduled Caste" in India, meaning that they were at one time referred to as part of the Untouchables. Another word for a person belonging to this group is "Dalit" which, in Sanskrit, means ground, suppressed, crushed, or broken to pieces. An SC was traditionally a group that would be outcasted and regarded as ritually polluted, segregated from the mainstream society. These groups are usually foreignors, even those who have been settled in India for generations, nomadic tribes, criminals and lawbreakers, and Christians. Even though the caste system in India has been abolished, the social prejudice and customs still remain. The government, under the constitution established in 1950, has made great leaps in the economic and educational discrimination against such groups, but there is still much to do. Since the Mahisyadas speak and read Bengali (coming from Bangladesh, originally) as their heart language, it is a great blessing that the Bible has been translated into this language. Much work has been done among the Bengali people, pray that it would also be done among the Mahisyadas. They already understand the idea of being aliens in a foreign land - for them to understand that, as Christians, we are just residing here on Earth, it is not our permanent home, would align with their culture without difficulty.
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