We really like the push at Frontier Ventures for Frontier Peoples. If you have a moment, take a look at Robby Butler’s introductory article about it at https://www.missionfrontiers.org/issue/article/introducing-frontier-people-groups-fpgs. Before you take a position, watch the video at https://www.frontierpeoples.net/. Look through the cool overview at https://joshuaproject.net/assets/media/handouts/frontier-peoples-overview.pdf. Then check out the interactive map at https://www.frontierpeoples.net/map. And just for good measure, before you decide whether you’re “in” or “out,” check out the infographics at https://www.frontierpeoples.net/resources. See how we could talk about “riding on the shoulders of those who have gone before us” to help movements start in hundreds of unreached people groups over the past 40 years? Download the powerpoint at https://joshuaproject.net/assets/media/ppt/remaining-mission-task.zip . If you’d prefer not downloading a zipped file, just catch the same powerpoint here https://brigada.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RemainingMissionTask.pptx or grab a pdf version here: https://brigada.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RemainingMissionTask.pdf. They even did an article on “how to reach them like Paul did:” https://www.missionfrontiers.org/pdfs/MF40-6_Nov-Dec_eBook-24-27_How_to_Reach_Frontier_Peoples.pdf It sounds so positive to say what Becky Lewis said at Telos Fellowship — that the last 40 years have witnessed the most effective period of Christian Kingdom Growth in the history of the world — and that we’re standing today on the shoulders of giants. Movements have already happened in many of the people groups we have, for so long, considered unreached – and that if we really want to focus on groups that might have the potential to reach others around them, we could mainly focus on the 300 largest Frontier Groups. Doesn’t all that sound encouraging and exciting? Your take? We were thinking about updating a “Wall of the Unreached” with these data and wondered what you thought. Could you get behind this push? Be honest please.
10) Your Take on a Push for Frontier Peoples?
I think this is an important conversation. It is particularly relevant for those of us who are seeking to reach Deaf people groups – including those outside the 10/40 window but who are as unreached as the groups in the window.