{Hoffman Holla' 2018-10} Leadership expansion and FUPGs

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Perspectives Leadership Consultation

Early October we drove the long 12 hours (in family drive time) to Orlando FL. This year our national gathering of Perspectives Leaders was in our region. Our time centered around a 10 year vision from the executive team that would prepare for an expansion of our capacity to increase our mobilization presence within the community - how exciting to dream and work toward our vision: " the body of Christ awakened to pursue the fulfillment of God's global purpose within every people for His glory."
Dr. Steve Hawthorne giving us insight into the Perspectives process as he sees it as curriculum editor.
While in Orlando, we also had additional meetings with our team and taught Lesson 7 for the local class. Orlando is a mission hub with USA operation bases for Pioneers, Wycliffe, Converge and Ethnos 360 - among other agencies. The harvest is ready to be mobilized in Orlando.

Frontier Ventures Board

Frontier Ventures has operated with an internal board from its inception as Dr. Winter wanted to replicate a field-base-lead model of leadership. Within the past few weeks Melissa and I have accepted an invitation to join the board; beginning in January (when we hope to have full support raised). We are thankful for this opportunity to engage in executive leadership and prayerful that God can steward us to be a part of the leadership that propels Frontier Ventures into the future.

Support Update

Here is our current support status (updated 10/17/18)
We are still working on developing support to be able to fulfill and focus on the ministry of Perspectives and Frontier Ventures. As the chart above demonstrates - we still have 30% of our ongoing support to raise. We are still dedicating 25% of our weekly time to seeing this come together.

New term: Frontier Unreached People Group

Beginning in 1974 Dr. Ralph Winter began advocating for the peoples without access to the gospel - then called "Hidden Peoples", now referred typically to unreached peoples.

There is a growing wealth of descriptive terms that help us advocate for the work of the gospel to all peoples, and that help our sending efforts focus to accomplish this goal.

Unengaged Unreached People Groups is a helpful modifier in that these UUPGs have no (known) outside Christian witness among them.

Another one recently released is Frontier Unreached People groups. This modifier helps us to focus on those on the extreme end of unreached. FUPGs are peoples with 0.1% or less Christian adherents and no known gospel movement. There are currently 4,751 of these peoples with the least access to the gospel that make up 1.8 billion people (24% of global population). Further analysis available from IJFM.

May these terms draw our hearts to God's redemptive plan for all nations as emphasized in scripture, and then take action to pray, mobilize, fund, welcome and send so that we can be faithful to the every Christian Great Commission calling.

2018-10 October

The Hoffmans are members of the mission agency Frontier Ventures, currently assigned as Perspectives Southeast Regional Directors.

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* Pray for the support raising process to to call people to Great Commission participation by investing in mobilization via Perspectives.

*Pray for our regional strategic initiatives including strategic planning, strategic projects, and our Regional Gathering Nov. 2-4

*Pray for the Perspectives process to transform participants into the character and purposes of God so that Great Commission engagement is a natural and joyful result.

*Pray for our family and the adoption process.

What is Perspectives?

Perspectives is a fifteen week course designed around four vantage points or "perspectives" — Biblical, Historical, Cultural and Strategic. Each one highlights different aspects of God's global purpose.

The Biblical and Historical sections reveal why our confidence is based on the historic fact of God's relentless work from the dawn of history until this day.

The Cultural and Strategic sections underscore that we are in the midst of a costly, but very "do-able" task, confirming the Biblical and Historical hope.

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Perspectives Vision ...

is to see the Body of Christ awakened to pursue the fulfillment of God's global purpose within every people for His glory.

Perspectives Mission ...

is to mobilize by educating the Body of Christ (in the USA) to strategic engagement in God's global purpose.

Next Issue (November 2018)

We anticipate sharing about the Regional Gathering scheduled for November 2-4.