The Number of Unreached People Groups in the U.S. and Canada: A Call for More and Better Urban Research-Part 5
While the United States and Canada are two of the most researched nations in the world, believe it or not, we lack both the research and data on the numbers of unreached people groups living in these two countries. I am amazed that we have better information about a unreached people group living on the [...]
5 Changes Influencing Mission in Metro America: A Call for More and Better Research-Part 2
Yesterday, I began a series calling Evangelicals to increase and improve upon what little data we have regarding our urban mission fields in the United States and Canada. In this post, I want to draw your attention to some of the recent demographic changes happening in the metropolitan United States. According to the Brookings Institution, [...]
Removing the Urban Fog: A Call for More and Better Urban Research-Part 1
This past weekend, I spent time with some of the great folks in the Southeastern Region of the Evangelical Missiological Society (EMS). Each year, the EMS meets in regions across the United States and Canada to hear presentations on a designated topic affecting contemporary missions. This year’s theme was on the topic of urban missions. [...]
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Unreached Peoples in the West-Part 2
“God cannot lead you on the basis of facts you do not have,” so noted Ralph Winter in an editorial written on January 1, 2007. While I do not completely agree with this statement–God is not limited by my ignorance–there is a good deal of truth to be found here. God generally guides His people [...]
ethNYcity by Chris Clayman and Meredith Lee
Since I just completed a series on diaspora missiology, I thought it would be appropriate to inform you of a new book that you need in your library. Chris Clayman and Meredith Lee have written ethNYcity: The Nations, Tongues, and Faiths of Metropolitan New York (NY: Metro New York Baptist Association; Cary, NC: Baptist State Convention [...]
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Critical Issues in North American Church Planting: #4 The Challenge of Contextualization
If you did not catch Critical Issue #5 first mentioned on February 15, you can read it HERE. Now we come to Critical Issue #4: The Challenge of Contextualization. When the church planters noted this issue they were referring to the difficulties experienced in effectively communicating the gospel and planting churches in diverse contexts. They found out that church planting methods as advocated in the books of the [...]
Critical Issues in North American Church Planting: #5 Stress on the Family
Today I begin a 5-part series of posts related to critical issues facing church planters in the United States and Canada. Several years ago, I did an informal study in which I surveyed 190 individualswho were involved in many different areas of church planting. They were from four Canadian Provinces and thirty-nine states. They represented thirteen [...]
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Reflections #3: We Must Not Stop With Knowing the Facts
We now come to the final post related to my reflections on the report of evangelical concentrations in the U.S. and Canada. I wish to wrap up this series with a word of caution and suggestion for our next steps. Caution: The Dangers of Research I believe it was Dayton and Fraser (Planning Strategies for [...]
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Reflections Part 1: Evangelicals Must Do Better Research
As promised, I wanted to provide some commentary to the initial study posted on January 14. While I’ll offer more related posts later, I wish to begin by stating we must do more up-to-date and better research. If you have not downloaded the report and the corresponding Power Point presentation, you can check it out here and here. The [...]
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From 35,000 to 15,000 Feet: Evangelical Statistics in the U.S. and Canada
Here is the study I just completed related to the concentrations of Evangelicals in the U. S. and Canada. You need BOTH the report and the PowerPoint presentation. WHY THIS STUDY? The Spirit uses good research to guide missionary strategy To show the need for up-to-date studies and call Evangelicals to conduct better research (the best data is [...]
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