Joshua Project
| Formation | 1995 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | Colorado Springs, U.S. |
| Website | joshuaproject.net |
The Joshua Project is an
Christian missions. It also tracks the evangelism efforts among 17,446 people groups worldwide—a people group being "the largest group within which the Gospel can spread as a church planting movement," according to the project's website[1]—to identify people groups as of yet unreached by Christian evangelism.[2]
History
The project began in 1995 within the former AD2000 and Beyond Movement.Venture Center.[5]
The goal of the project is to bring definition to the unfinished task of the Great Commission by providing accurate, regularly updated ethnic people group information critical for understanding the scope of the work required.[5]
Focusing on ethnicity, the project maintains a database of "
Sub-Saharan Africans, Tibetan / Himalayan peoples, Turkic peoples and Unclassified). Each ethnicity is listed as speaking at least one of 6,510 languages.[6][7][8]
See also
References
Notes
- ^ "What is a People Group? | Joshua Project". joshuaproject.net. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
- ^ Shellnutt, Kate (22 April 2019). "Missions Experts Are Redefining 'Unreached People Groups'". ChristianityToday.com. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
- ^ "Beyond Project".
- ^ "Joshua Project | Joshua Project". joshuaproject.net. Retrieved 2021-03-11.
- ^ a b "Frontier Ventures". www.frontierventures.org.
- ^ Joshua Project. "Great Commission Statistics". Joshua Project. Retrieved 2010-03-11.
- ^ "peoplegroups.org, Joshua Project" (PDF).
- ^ Scribner, Dan. "Joshua Project: Bringing Definition to the Great Commission". Mission Frontiers.
Bibliography
- Johnstone, Patrick; Hanna, John; and Smith, Marti (1996) ISBN 978-0-927545-98-3.
- Stump, Roger W. (2008) The Geography of Religion: Faith, Place, and s]Space, Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-7425-1080-7, 381f.
- Thomas, Pradip Ninan (2008) Strong Religion, Zealous Media: Christian Fundamentalism and Communication in India SAGE Publications Ltd. pp.142-145. ISBN 978-81-7829-834-4