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This document discusses reaching South Asian peoples in the DFW area. It notes that over 1 billion South Asians live in Asia, comprising 1/4 of the world's population. 50% of the world's unreached people groups are in South Asia, including 57 of the 100 largest unreached people groups. It discusses the large and growing South Asian populations in the United States and DFW specifically. The document proposes partnering churches to reach South Asian unreached people groups in DFW through prayer, equipping Christians, and church planting. Tables then discuss ideas to widen the funnel of lost people being reached through collaborative initiatives.
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- 1. DFW Diaspora Roundtable Reachingthe South Asian people of DFW www.UPG4DFW.org
- 2. Prayer Care LearnShare DFW Diaspora Mission Alliance Communicate Connect Coach Collaborate Tactics For more information visit www.DFW4UPG.org
- 4. What does thismean for us?
- 5. Focus on SouthAsian Peoples The highest population density in Asia
- 6. Focus on SouthAsian Peoples 1,241,491,960 - 176,745,364 30,485,798 738,267 150,493,658 20,869,000320,081 Maldives One out of every 4 people on the planet live here
- 7. Unreached South AsianPeoples 2,365/2.2% - 453/0.0% 332/2.8% 28/1.8% 344/0.4% 43/1.2%Maldives – 6/0.1% 50% of the Unreached People Groups of the world live here
- 8. Unreached South AsianPeoples Of the 100 largest “Least” Reached People Groups of the world, 57 are found in South Asia – 48 live in India
- 9. Poverty of SouthAsian Peoples More than 35% of the population lives on less than $1 per day
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- 11. South Asian Population- USA South Asians are the fastest growing segment of US population
- 12. South Asian Population- DFW DFW ranks among the fastest growing South Asian cities in the U.S.
- 13. South Asian Population- DFW Nation City Rank- Top 5 DFW Population Indian 125,000 Pakistani 5 50,000 Nepali 3 11,000 Bangladeshi 8.000 Bhutanese 1 ??? Sri Lankan 5 2,500 How many Unreached People Groups are represented here?
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- 15. What if Godwas bringing South Asians to DFW the good life in Texas?
- 16. What if churcheswere to partner together to reach South Asian UPGs in DFW? www.DFW4UPG.org
- 17. The Mobilization Funnel Pray-ers Equipped CP ManyChristians Will Pray Some Christians Will Get Equipped (i.e. Perspectives) A Few Christians will become Church Planters Yield of New Lost Peoples Reached Church Attenders
- 18. Table Discussion The visiongoal is to widen the bottom of the funnel. More lost people reached. Based upon what we heard today…. What are the 3 most important things we could do serving better together to see this happen? Think creatively @ Tables 20 minutes - Table Report 10 minutes - Group Discuss
- 19. DFW Diaspora MissionAlliance 2013 Leadership Team – DFWDMA leadership team is open Roundtable Meetings – DFWDMA will convene one more Diaspora Roundtables in December Affinity Groups - ongoing networking of affinity groups – i.e. refugee, international students, Muslim outreach, Hindu outreach, church planting, T4T North America Diaspora Mission Consultation –September 17th Collaborative Initiatives –a vision to see every people group of DFW prayed for and engaged with the Gospel
- 20. 3 BIG IdeasFor Collaboration • Create a database of service opportunities and resource providers specific to diaspora mission • Create a local diaspora focused “short-term mission trip” experiences for churches to send their folks into the harvest • Launch a disciple-making movement in DFW using T4T principles
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- 22. North American Diaspora MissionConsultation September 17th NORTHAMERICADIASPORAMISSION.INFO