Saturday, August 13, 2011

EMBRACE: Church 'embraces' tough decisions about unengaged peoples


Choosing a people group to engage with the Gospel can feel like throwing a dart at a map.

With the global population nearing 7 billion and approximately 3,800 unengaged, unreached people groups -- those with no active church-planting strategy and less than a 2 percent evangelical presence -- the task of narrowing down which people group to embrace can seem overwhelming to some Southern Baptist pastors and leaders.

"It's a daunting task," said Mark Harrison, missions pastor at Old Town Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C. "We've been on a journey the last couple of years and trying to figure out what God wants us to do." To read more, click here.

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