A news release about the prayer wall provides this background:
"Because we live in a church saturated culture where Bibles can be
accessed on our phones and there are churches on every corner, it is
difficult to grasp that 2.7 billion people in the world have
never heard the name of Jesus, have no access to a Bible, have no
missionary, and may never hear the Gospel. Researchers have
identified around 7,000 people groups with a total population of 2.7
billion as being unreached—this is approximately 40% of the
world's population! (source/resource
http://www.joshuaproject.net/)
"All of these
numbers can seem like random statistics. What if there was a way to
visualize the enormity of the task of reaching all of these people
with the life-changing message of the Gospel? Imagine a 60 ft. wall
containing a list of the 1,587 largest unreached people groups. This
wall is called the Unleashed for the Unreached Prayer Wall
and helps to make the enormous task before us of reaching the world
for Christ visually memorable and calls believers to prayer."
According to the Unleashed for
the Unreached website, the campaign was launched at the 2011
North American Christian Convention in Cincinnati, Ohio, when the
convention president, Dudley Rutherford, delivered his keynote
address on the evening of July 5, 2011. "He asked churches
everywhere to partner together to form networks that would boldly
tackle the problem of getting the word out to unreached people
groups and cities still uninformed about the Good News of Jesus
Christ," the website says.
The initiative connects local churches with unreached peoples and
cities, facilitated by trained project fulfillment specialists, peer
mentoring and prayer.
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The "Wall
of Unreached Peoples" has been featured at the North American
Christian Convention and the International Conference on Missions.
When the wall is at Lincoln Christian Church from Wednesday, Nov.
20, through Wednesday, Nov. 27, there will be multiple opportunities
for visitors to interact with the prayer wall. Scheduled activities
include:
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Wednesday, Nov.
20, at 6:30 p.m. -- "Aha" moment with Dr. Wayne Shaw
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Saturday, Nov. 23,
from 6 to 7:45 p.m. -- "Unleashed for the Unreached" seminar
with Doug Lucas, team expansion president
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Sunday, Nov. 24,
at 8:15, 9:30 and 11 a.m. -- Doug Lucas will preach.
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Open time for
prayer -- Saturday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sunday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m.
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Additional prayer
opportunities for individuals and groups will be available
throughout the week. For more information or to schedule a time
to come, contact Lincoln Christian Church 217-732-7618.
Those who can't come to the events are invited to check out the
resources on
http://www.joshuaproject.net/, where people can get a daily
email reminder to pray about an unreached people group and find out
more information about unreached peoples. Those who would like to
commit to praying for a specific unreached people group can visit
the website, http://www.u4theu.com/,
and find a
form under contacts. Follow
Unleashed for the Unreached or
Unreached Peoples
- Joshua Project on Facebook.
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