Do People Groups Still Matter?

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Editorial Comment by Rick Wood

Do People Groups Still Matter? A Review in 2010 by Darrell Dorr

Lifting, Pushing, Squeezing and Blending: The Dynamics of Ethnicity and Globalization by Brad Gill

Is God Colorblind or Colorful? by Miriam Adeney

Further Responses to Paul Hiebert by Bruce Graham, Duane Frasier, Omid, Ralph Winter and Bruce Koch, and Steve Hawthorne

Taking this Conversation Forward: "Reassessing the Frontiers" at ISFM 2010 by Brad Gill

Marginalia by Dave Datema

Tokyo 2010's New Technology Vision: Building Global Networking Platforms to Finish the Task by David Taylor

Raising Local Resources by Glenn Schwartz

Further Reflections by Greg H. Parsons

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May/Jun 2010; Issue 32.3

In 1974, Dr. Ralph Winter changed the course of mission history and world history with his address to the first Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, where he revealed that we would never complete the task of world evangelization if we continued with the same strategies and methods. Dr. Winter clarified that the global Church had not adequately understood the vast and diverse ethnic realities of the world, with the great majority of mission resources concentrated in areas where the gospel had been available for many years while great swaths of humanity were left untouched. A dramatic course correction was needed. In his address, he reiterated the biblical mandate to reach every tribe and tongue and thus catalyzed what has been called the “unreached peoples movement.”

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Do People Groups Still Matter?

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