Etnopedia

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Etnopedia gives opportunity for the major research efforts, but more specifically to regional and country level researchers, to expand the research process. The three principle themes in this presentation are:

1. Translating unreached peoples profile into as many languages as possible.

2. Expanding the unreached people research to field level investigators.

3. Fostering mobilization, cooperation and prayer.

Etnopedia will not be one single people list, but rather many smaller people lists (in the form of people profiles) in as many languages as possible, either translated or compiled by field level persons or researchers.

Because they are tools used by the whole church for mobilization, prayer, cooperation, networking, sending, and even gathering research. They are printed in church bulletins, hung on prayer room walls, passed out at missions meetings, used by Bible school students for their research papers, cut and pasted into PowerPoint presentations, used by missionary sending entities to strategize and the list goes on. The Mission of Etnopedia is to see every country and or region translates people profiles into their local language. They also share their ethnic people information gathered from their country or region. If this is accomplished to any degree, we should see a dramatic increase in the sending of new missionaries to specific ethnic peoples.
We should also see field research update other research efforts in different languages. Etnopedia is an editable website that displays unreached people profiles in different languages. Each language has its own Internet portal that can link to all of the other language portals for translating and research purposes. * Many profiles will be loaded, first in Spanish, and then in English, now also in Germn and Portuguese, later also in other languages.

In closing, we must acknowledge the work and sacrifice of others who contributed to Etnopedia. Over 50 organizations and research efforts contributed information for its translation into Spanish. Without them, Etnopedia would not exist. We propose that it is time to share information with other languages in order to speed Christ’s return.

The current language portals on Etnopedia ready for translations to begin: Chinese, Dutch, French, Korean, Malay, Vietnamese, Hindi, and Russian, more portals in preparation.

Etnopedia is a free editable encyclopedia on the ethnic peoples of the world from a Christian perspective -
Etnopedia is an open editable website for an international community to collaborate on, translate and update information on the ethnic peoples (people groups) of the world. Its purpose is to inform Evangelical and Protestant Christians who will take the Gospel of Christ to the unreached ethnic peoples.
2008 - Etnopedia was officially launched for all research efforts of any language at The Fifth International Lausanne Researchers Conference in Melbourne Australia from Tuesday 8th to Saturday 12th April 2008.
Etnopedia is published (May 2008) in four languages: Spanish, English, German and Portuguese, more languages in preparation.