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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.
Ethnê Member Care
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.
Reality Dose

[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] European gathering of the Ethnê to Ethnê movement

  • August 16-21, 2009: The next European gathering of the Ethnê to Ethnê movement will be held in Berlin, Germany.

[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

[edit] The Global Steering Committee includes the Directors and Facilitators of:

Philippines Mission Association

India Mission Association

Malaysian Center for Global Ministry

Nigerian Evangelical Missions Association

Indonesian Evangelical Alliance

Indonesian Research Network

US Center for World Mission

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 family gathering 2012

  • The next international Ethnê family gathering will be hosted by the India Mission Association (IMA) in Hyderabad November 28 to December 2nd, 2012.

[edit] Ethne Europe

  • Ethnê Europe is part of the global Ethnê to Ethnê movement. Their primary desire is the see Unreached People Groups (UPGs) and Least Reached Peoples (LRPs) reached with the Gospel of the Kingdom of God. Ethnê Europe is a gathering of people passionate about work among the 400 UPGs in Eastern and Western Europe and Eurasia and the Church in Europe’s involvement among the least-reached peoples globally. Europe today is both a harvest force and a harvest field. Praise the LORD, there is a growing interest in UPGs in Europe and in reaching the UPGs globally from the European Church.
  • Jesus deserves to be worshiped by all peoples and until He is, He will not return to rule the Earth. As The Bride of Christ in Europe it is our longing to see our Bridegroom returning victoriously to His Kingdom established in all the Earth.
  • Ethnê Europe exists to connect those reaching the unreached and those mobilizing the harvest force so we can do a better job together. Some of us are focused on mobilizing the Body of Christ to go and reach the LRPs among them while others are focused on reaching the LRPs themselves. Some of the unreached peoples in Europe are immigrants while others are indigenous Europeans who have not had access to the Gospel.

[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] Ethnê Europe meeting in Berlin, Germany, August 16-21, 2009

  • At the meeting in Berlin, they celebrated the work that is already being done, assessed the status of missions in the European Church and among the UPGs living in Europe, and they discussed how they could accelerate this momentum. Three working groups were formed—one focused on networking, one on mobilization, and one on research and resources.
  • There is much room for growth and even more for action. A good example of this new burden would be "Together for Berlin", in which a number of local organizations have joined hands to present the Gospel to the UPGs living in Berlin where peoples from over 180 different nations live. The same situation is true for all world class cities in Western Europe -- London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and others. A crowd of migrants, students, refugees, and business people have moved into Europe from all parts of the world. Even in medium-sized cities in Germany you will find about 100 languages spoken by the population, and this is also true in many other cities and towns across Europe. About 15 millions of these UPGs are Muslims from many different ethnic back grounds; in France, maybe 5.5% of the population are Muslims and there are already countless mosques (7,000 in the larger countries alone) scattered in Europe. The numbers of Muslims will likely continue to increase, because their birth rate is much higher than that of the native population. More than one million of these immigrants are South Asians; they have built a number of Hindu temples in the cities of Europe and their exotic festivals are attended by crowds of people. Not all newcomers are members of a UPG, and in fact, some of them are keen believers who have started many vibrant, growing congregations, but often they are only caring for their own countrymen.

[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]
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