Countries to Peoples The Shift from Political to Ethnic Concepts in Modern Missions March 2005Copyright © 2005 Orville Boyd Jenkins The Remaining Task

Countries to Peoples Followed the Colonial Empires of European Powers  Nation-States in the Post-Colonial Era  Geo-political map and view of the world  Immigration and Logistics is by Country Orville Boyd JenkinsMarch 2005 The Remaining Task Early Modern Missions – Country-Oriented

Countries to Peoples  Countries – 265 (ROG 2003)  Languages – 6912 ( Ethnologue 2005)  Peoples – 10,700 (Registry of Peoples 2005) Orville Boyd JenkinsMarch 2005 The Remaining Task Countries and Peoples

Countries to Peoples 1996 Research on Kenyan Peoples  118 Ethnicities  85 languages Orville Boyd JenkinsMarch 2005 The Remaining Task Kenya – Peoples and Languages

Countries to Peoples African Continent  48 Countries (more or less)  2058 languages ( The Ethnologue )  Several Thousand Peoples Orville Boyd JenkinsMarch 2005 The Remaining Task Africa – Peoples and Languages

Language – Everybody speaks one (or more)  What language do you learn?  How does language relate to ethnic identity?  What strategies are implied? The Remaining Task Countries to Peoples Languages and Peoples

Living Languages -- Ethnologue  6528 (1992)  6703 (1996)  6809 (2000)  6912 (2005)  13 years – increase of 384 identified languages  (Plus thousands more dialect divisions) Countries to Peoples The Remaining Task Languages

Living Languages -- Ethnologue  France – 29 indigenous, plus 38 others  USA – 176 indigenous, plus 163 others, and several dozen non- specified  Each of these represents at least one ethnic group Countries to Peoples The Remaining Task Languages – Illustration The Ethnologue, 2000

Countries to Peoples Baptist Approaches  Swahili national language – general society, government business, education  Church Work in Meru, Kikuyu, Luo, others, later Kamba, Maasai, others  1976 Giriama Project  Indigenous Music Development in many languages Orville Boyd JenkinsMarch 2005 The Remaining Task Kenya –Languages and Strategies

Countries to Peoples Baptist Approaches  Language and Orientation Program – Swahili language as medium of African culture learning  Facilitating other languages  Radio broadcasts in several languages  Churches in the appropriate local language Orville Boyd JenkinsMarch 2005 The Remaining Task Kenya –Languages and Strategies

Perspectives  The missionaries learned the language needed to communicate meaningfully  They lived and worked among the people  Some missions worked only in English or Swahili  Limited to the elite  Or at the mercy of a translator  What are the people really understanding and deciding?! Countries to Peoples The Remaining Task Kenya –Languages and Strategies

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