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Following are suggested steps for fruitful outreach and church planting
among the "diaspora peoples" God has brought to live in your city.

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  • A heart to pray, knowledge of how to pray and perseverence in prayer
  • Guidance in discovering the peoples of your city
  • Insight into which people He would have you to reach with the gospel
  • Connections with others who are engaging this people somewhere else
  • Awakened hearts, willingness to prepare for outreach and love for your particular people group
  • A strong prayer covering from the rest of the congregation
  • A godly outreach and church-planting team with a synergistic blend of giftings
  • Open hearts among your people group, that they would be drawn to Christ and that a viable, indigenous church would be planted among them
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  • Ethnic Harvest's articles and book links will provide good study material on cross-cultural outreach and church planting.
  • The Nations Have Come to Us contains yet another compilation of ministries, books, articles, powerpoint, seminars and maps.
  • Crossing Cultures and the Kempei Game will help you learn how to effectively reach out and communicate cross-culturally
  • Ethnography Training Course by Caleb Encounters equips you with the skills and background to do relationship-based sociological exploration, and can also provide a foundation for coordinating your own research projects and/or teams.
  • City Vision (Minneapolis/St. Paul) provides an excellent citywide model for what can be done to research, mobilize, train and network for cross-cultural outreach and church planting within a city.
  • Ethnic America Network holds a major national ethnic summit in a different city each year; has involved over sixty evangelical denominations and agencies; focuses on reaching diaspora communities in America with the gospel of Jesus Christ and promotes reconciliation and unity among diverse people groups.
  • ACMI (the Association of Christians Ministering among Internationals) conducts an annual national conference and provides a helpful web site of resources for those ministering among International Students. Click here to find their listing of international student ministers & volunteers at a school near you.
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  • RESEARCH: Peoplegroups.info is a database and helps center for discovering peoples in your city by zip code using data from the US Census. This site is also the beginning of a national database for reporting and networking with researchers and outreach/ church-planting ministries in your community. Click here for some helpful FAQs ... but be patient, this site has been slow to download.
  • RESEARCH: Church Planting Village's Population Segments provides insights into prominent segments of America's ethnic make-up.
  • RESEARCH: Global Missiology's Diaspora pages will link you to many resources and prominent immigrant people-group information links.
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  • OUTREACH TOOL: Alpha for ESOL
    Alpha for ESOL (English Speakers of Other Languages) provides an easy way to discuss some of the most asked questions of life and faith. The course is in English but made more accessible in format and vocabulary. The course consists of a meal, a talk on a topic like prayer, or healing, and time to discuss your thoughts with your fellow guests every 10-15 minutes.
  • OUTREACH TOOLS: Cross-Cultural Outreach Tools
    Bibles, Literature and other media in various languages
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  • Caleb Encounter's Advocacy Training equips youto advocate for your people group.
  • Connect your members with vision-casting and vision-building literature, training opportunities and outreach tools (Essentially, after studying yourself, use the best articles, books and outreach tools to pass on to others).
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  • By the grace of God, and combining persistent prayer, diligent training, team building and research, God will eventually bring together the key factors and connections you need to engage in fruitful outreach and church planting.
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  • Peoplegroups.info ideally is set up to report on your work in progress, allowing other churches to discover your work and vice versa, so that potential networking/partnerships and synergy can take place for the benefit of the people you are reaching.
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  • Keep praying with vigilence and watchfulness for the enemy will never cease to look for ways to derail or halt your progress.
    Click here for excellent articles, books and training on prayer.