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How to Discover and Describe an Ethno-Linguistic People Group and Develop an Access Strategy

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Researching People Groups for Gospel Strategy 1. Perspectives on People Group Research 2. Discovering and Describing Your People Group 3. Resources and Approaches 4. Documenting Your Findings 5. A Conceptual Framework        for Research and Strategy 6. Building Your Strategy from Worldview 7. Conclusions: Summary Principles Research Instruments Country Profile Guide (MS Word) How to Use the Research Instruments People Profile Template Questionnaire for Worldview Analysis Worldview Investigation Outline Worldview Survey Form (MS Word) Power Point Presentations Assimilation — How People Groups Develop and Change Contrast of African and European Worldviews Church Planting Movements — That They All May Hear Describing a People Group Identifying a People Group Oral and Literate — Communicating across the Worldview Formats Oral and Literate — Contrast of Oral and Literate Perspectives Orality and Postliterate Culture People Groups — Concept and Terminology Research for Strategy Research to Strategy — A Conceptual Framework Toward a Model of Assimilation Using Bridges and Barriers What is a Church Planting Movement? What is a People Group? What is Worldview? Worldview Charts Online Resources Articles Menu — Orville Jenkins Thoughts and Resources Bedouin Sing Language in Israel Caleb Project Global Research (IMB) Harvest Information System — Registry of Peoples Joshua Project

Feature Topics Determining Ethnicity What is a People Group? What is "Worldview"? Assimilation — How Peoples Merge and Diverge Selected People Profiles How to Learn Language and Culture ISLAM Contrast of African and European Worldviews People Groups and the Homogeneous Unit Concept Segmentation — Identifying Ethnic, Social Strategy Segments Stories and Storytelling:  Communicating the Gospel in an Oral Culture What Makes a People Group Distinct? Worldview, Language and Culture That They May Hear Topics in Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, Chapters 9 and 10 The Task Remaining How Shall They Hear   Download separate self-loading Disk version of Perspectives Resources for these two topics (19MB) The Deaf as a People Group Characteristics of the Deaf as a People Group (PPt) Commonalities among all Sign Languages (PPt) The Deaf as an Ethno-linguistic People Group (PPt) The Deaf as a People Group — Menu of Resources How to Do Research on the Internet People Group Cultural Profiles for Strategy Virtual Research Centre (VRC) Orville Boyd Jenkins Last Updated 4 November 2008 Online SLRK Articles Menu Online Strategy Leader Resource Kit Home