More on Missions to Unreached Peoples

Foolish Blog links to To Every Tribe Ministries, whose mission statement is "to glorify God by planting evangelical Christian churches in the interior, unevangelized regions of Papua New Guinea and Mexico."

Here is their definition of an unreached tribe (cf. yesterday's post on the Joshua Project):

All unreached tribes are not equally unreached. I use a one to ten scale to determine what extent a tribe is still unreached. A one or two on the scale denotes a tribe who has never heard the name of Jesus Christ. Unbelievably, there are still places where the name of Christ has never penetrated. A three or four on the scale represents a tribe where there has been some evangelistic activity and possibly a few believers are scattered throughout the tribe. Five or six indicates a small church has been established and is functioning with national leadership, perhaps still under the oversight of the church planter. Seven on the scale depicts a tribe with a strong fellowship of believers operating under national leadership. However, tribes are still considered unreached until they are significant enough in number and maturity to complete the task of evangelizing their own tribe without external assistance. A tribe ceases to be considered "unreached" when it becomes fully functional without foreign support or oversight.

[HT: Best of the GodBlogs]