Ethnê to Ethnê movement
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[edit] About Ethnê
Ethnê is the Greek word Jesus used for “nation”—a word which means tribe, ethnic group or people. Our world today has 6.5 billion individuals living in 234 geo-political nations but over 16,000 ethnê, or people groups, by country. Of those ethnê, more than 6,900 groups remain least-reached. This simply means they are a people group lacking an indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize their own people group. This means 1 in 4 people still remain without reasonable access to the gospel— the Forgotten One Fourth World.
[edit] Why Are They Least-Reached?
GEOGRAPHIC BARRIERS: remote, harsh climate, difficult access, or nomadic.
LINGUISTIC BARRIERS: illiteracy, no scripture in their language, unwritten language, terminology confusion.
POLITICAL BARRIERS: restricted access, evangelism forbidden, hostile environment (war?).
CULTURAL BARRIERS: persecution, closed to change, Christianity viewed as a “foreign” religion.
UNRECOGNIZED: believers unaware of the need or the group, small in size, prejudice, isolated from the society in which they live.
[edit] Ethnê to Ethnê
Global, ongoing, biblical and multi-generational:
- The whole body: All ethnê joining together to reach the rest of the ethnê.
- Biblical language: reflecting global inclusion of all believers and peoples.
- Great Commission Transformation: As other ethnê respond, they will join us to continue the transformation of our nations and our world.
[edit] This Generation!
"This Generation!" reflects the loving urgency of time and the responsibility of each "kind" of generation-Boomers, Gen-Xers, first-generation, or fourth generation believers!
[edit] Member Care
- The Web site Member Care is designed to help you with your member care responsibilities and to provide quality member care resources:
- to support the mission community as it works among Least-Reached People Groups (LPGs).
- to support the member care community, especially Member Care Workers (MCWs) who prioritise their services for LPGs.
- to provide material and resources
- to provide important web links
- to provide Member Care - Core Documents and Articles for downloading
- to publish each month a Member Care Update
January 08 Up-dated
- Ethne-Member Care-Updates: The January 08 report contains important resources regarding member care plus relevant materials from the international humanitarian, business, and health fields. The January 2008 issue is on Health and Dysfunction in the Mission Community.
- Reality Dose: This new web site has materials on member care for the mission/aid community. The initial resource is a special article on discipline/dysfunction, available in 12 languages.
[edit] Ethnê 06 conference
- For five days in March 2006, over 350 delegates from every continent came together at ‘Ethne 06’ to celebrate progress, assess status and accelerate efforts to reach the least-reached peoples of the world. Most global conferences draw people from all over the world and organize themselves around tracks that appeal to a broad cross-section of workers. Ethne ’06, on the other hand, focused only on unreached peoples and had just a few tracks addressing issues related to reaching them.
[edit] Ethne 09 conference
- The next global gathering of the Ethnê to Ethnê movement will be held in Cartegena, Colombia, November 1-5, 2009.
[edit] Global Connections
Ethnê is built on the momentum of the AD2000 Movement and the 2001 Great Commission Roundtable meeting and the Singapore02 meeting. It is the official UPG network or "intersection" for three global Christian movements: the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization (Lausanne Covenant), the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission and Transform World.
[edit] Joshua Project
The Joshua Project and the Ethnê to Ethnê movement work very close together.
[edit] Ethne to Ethne Africa Partnership
- Ethne to Ethne Africa Partnership is a group of 20 representing many different nations, who want to bring the vision for least-reached peoples to the African Church and to participate by praying and by reaching these groups in Africa and beyond.
[edit] The Global Steering Committee includes the Directors and Facilitators of:
Philippines Mission Association
Malaysian Center for Global Ministry
Nigerian Evangelical Missions Association
Indonesian Evangelical Alliance
COMIMEX Mexican network
COMIBAM (Latin America Mission Network)
Central Asia Consultation
CRAF (Francophone Africa Partnership)
Arabian Peninsula Partnership
China Source
SEALINK (SE Asia UPG Network)
SEANET Buddhist World Network, *SEANET
SW Peoples Partnership
[edit] Ethnê prayer strategy group meeting Europe
- Place: Ostfildern just outside of Stuttgart/Germany
- Date: Late afternoon June 11, have dinner together, and to end with lunch June 13.
- Participants: Members of the Ethnê prayer strategy group in Europe, European members of the steering committee, also mobilizers, prayer network leaders, and others passionate about the unreached peoples particularly from Europe and neighbouring areas.
- Agenda points: Continue building stronger regional networks focusing on unreached peoples and encourage greater development of prayer mobilization and closer linking with actual field initiatives. Special time for intercession for the Unreached around the world.
- Info: Liz Adleta - Email: asianrd@sr21.com.
[edit] External Links
- This information is taken from the Ethnê to Ethnê movement website: *Ethnê to Ethnê
- Ethnê ’06: How it all Started, you read it on: *[1]
- Ethnê 06 conference 2006, closing press release: *Resources
- Reflections on Ethne 06 A power point presentation: *[2]
