Ministry you are involved in:
	How many years have you been involved in church planting?
	How many years have you been in full time and or part time ministry?

These demographics tell you about some of the basics of a province. They tell you the number of people in an area with certain characteristics.  Those basic numbers can help in evangelistic ministries, help to choose a location for a ministry, tell of the needs people have and how many have those needs.  One simple illustration: The ministry you are a part of wants to send information out to all the people living in the province.  Basic Demographics tell you how many flyers to make and you can calculate the cost of doing a direct mailing to everyone.

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     Employment and income (i.e. Number of working adults  including occupation information and income level)

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     Divisions of the population (i.e. Number and percentage of population who are men, women, youth, children)

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     Total population

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     People groups (i.e. Percentage, languages and location of ethnic minorities (what are typically called people groups)).

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     Elderly and disabled (i.e. Number of retired and elderly, and disabled/handicapped)

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This refers to the number of churches denominations in your country or area of ministry.

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     Growth of local congregations (i.e. Number of churches,

     Growth of membership and possibly NCD statistics)

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     Growth of denominations

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     Percentage of the people attend church (i.e. Adult attendance, Total communicant members

     and Percentage of people who call themselves followers of Christ)

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      The trend of growth

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     People group each church is reaching (i.e. People group (i.e. internationals) that each

     church is reaching .  Take the total number of the people group and show how many of

     them are being reached through x number of churches and or denominations.

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Number of churches that need to be planted in your target area so that every person has an opportunity to hear, see and understand the Gospel message in a culturally relevant way.

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The emphasis here is trying to gauge how open a group or population are to hearing about and receiving Christ.

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     Predominate Philosophies

      This focuses on defining the collective philosophy or  world view of the people in an area. 

      Examples of this could be: views of truth and reality, fatalism, Spirits, Ancestors, Hedonism,

      and or Individualism, etc.

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     Exegete our culture

     We must learn to exegete our culture to discover needs and mindsets

     which will indicate what would be Good News to these people.

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     Learn how to share Christ within the local world view.

     Although there is some overlap with the other two points this focuses a bit more on

     methods than it does on ideas.  The emphasis here is on the word 'how.'

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The seven categories regarding religious groups in this section are basically clear.  The key here is the information that we have on the provincial level.  It is true that there will be an abundance of information on the country level.  We are, however, looking to put as much local information as possible in the hands of local church planters.

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     History or the religions in the area

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     The religions relationship to the evangelical churches.

      This includes specific groups in a local area as well as an official policy that the

      group might have regarding evangelicals.

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     World view

     The world view of a religious group is the lens through which its adherents see the

     reality around them.  However, the world view that you might find in a book will probably

     be different from what you might find in a conversation with someone from that group. 

     If there is a large group of active members of a group in your area it would be good to do

     interviews with them focusing on their world view, how it differs from the official view and

     how that world view is received by the people in the local area.

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     Influential deities

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     Influential Role Models

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     Significant Events

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     Significant Practices

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Spiritual condition looks at and sometimes tries to measure the response people are having to the gospel of Jesus Christ.  It also addresses the availability of the gospel to groups of people.  It does not discuss the 'competition' the gospel has for the hearts of the people.  That is the topic of the section called Religion.

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     Least evangelized and unchurched (i.e. Lack of a church in a geographical area;

     Lack of churches in a people group; Lack of church representation among social economic groups)

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     Mark local churches on a map

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     Accomplishments of the Church (i.e. Segments of society reached with the gospel.

     Ministries to the needy;  Standing in the society at large (reputation))

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     Most responsive to the gospel (i.e. Geographical areas, People Groups and or Social economic groups)

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Felt needs here means a description of  any chronic problems in the society.  This research model tracks four main categories. 

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Destructive vices (i.e. Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gambling, Pornography and or Prostitution)

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Troubling trends like the following:

a.   New forms of old sins like nature worship, cypebrsex and designer drugs

b.   A broadening acceptance of behaviors that were formally unacceptable like  alternative lifestyles, abortion and teen sex.  This would also include the side effects of these behaviors like AIDS is to sex outside of marriage.

c.   It is also important to find out who is pushing or advancing these troubling trends.

d.  A developing brazenness or boldness to sin.

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Conditions of pain (This focuses on the major causes of suffering in a community.)

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Stresses, strains and hardships like the following:

a.   Orphanages: large number or poorly taken care of

b.   Lack of adequate medical care

c.   Elderly without care

d.   War and terrorism

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Resources that can be mobilized to help reach the people of the target area.

These people, churches and ministries can assist in reach people for Christ.  This category is more than just a contact list but also talks about the unity of the church in a given area or province. 

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Like-minded churches (The churches in the area that have a desire for evangelism and church planting.)

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Level of participation cross denominations and churches

State the level of participation cross denominations and churches that is unified

prayer for the lost in the community and outreach to the lost.  A percentage of

participation could be gained by knowing the number of churches and denominations

and comparing this with the number of those that are participating.

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Possible collaborators (People and possibly Christian organizations)

a.   Others with whom you can share this vision and who can cooperate together to reach the goal.

b.   The labor, finances, and gifted individuals are available.

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Churches, what they are like

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	Select any of the following options that apply: Financial situation of the churches Denomination Type of leadership in the church Activities provided by the church

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