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SERVICE AGENCIES

1. Your Denomination 
   If you belong to a denomination, check first to see if they have an "adoption" program. If they do, start there. This will save you some trouble for the leaders and members of church to accept adoption as a worthwhile pursuit! Click here to see if your church or agency affiliation is a part of the Adopt-A-People Campaign of the US Center for World Mission (See listed below).
2. AD2000 and Beyond Movement 
   Although this ministry no longer exists, AD2000’s Adoption Guidance Program is still on their web site. Highly recommended! 
3. Adopt-A-People Campaign
   The US Center for World Mission’s AAP Campaign provides a helpful introductory web page on how to adopt an unreached people group, called, Seven Aspects of a Successful Adoption. Addtionally there are case studies of adoptions, a list of sending and service agencies participating in the campaign, Doing Your Bit (intro to AAP video) and Vision for the Nations (VFN). VFN, though mostly a talking-head lecture series, is a video course for preparing churches and small groups for an adoption. It provides an 8 to 13 week Sunday School-level introductory mission course based on the Perspectives Study Program.
4. Adopt-A-People Clearinghouse
   A clearinghouse for unreached people group adoption information. Can give helpful information and ideas on adoption. People group profiles for sale. PO Box 17490, Colorado Springs CO 80935, Ph: 719-574-7001,
5. Caleb Project
   Ministries include speaking and teaching, publishing books and videos, research and advocacy for specific peoples. Caleb Project has a 30-minute video on adopting unreached people groups, called Ordinary People / Extraordinary Love. Co-produced with the AD2000 & Beyond Movement, this video profiles churches that have adopted unreached peoples and how God has used them. CP also offers Keys to the Nations: Articles to Inform, Guide, and Equip Advocates for the Unreached (1998), a 250+ page notebook with more than 100 articles covering a broad range of issues related to understanding unreached peoples.
6. ACMC
   ACMC is a network of missions-active churches, through which your church can get specific, practical assistance tailored to your church’s global outreach needs, including adoption. ACMC will help you mobilize your congregation, build vision, and help you become strategically involved in world evangelization. Conferences, vision seminars, regional staff all very helpful (some conferences include adopt-a-people workshops).
7. Accelerating International Mission Strategies (AIMS)
   AIMS is a ministry that encourages, trains, mobilizes, networks and facilitates the world-wide community of churches, agencies, other organizations and individuals for strategic global evangelization. AIMS currently has 10 alliances, seven of them focused on the 10/40 Window. AIMS offers seminars that focus on training to become more missions minded and a new seminar whose focus is on prayer and how to better pray for the unreached peoples of the world.
8. The Antioch Network
   A fellowship of local churches which share ideas and strategies for initiating church-planting movements among unreached people groups. Annual Gatherings (August/September) are an excellent place for churches to learn and network with others interested in the same part of the world.

1. AAP Campaign: Seven Aspects of an Adoption (Short Version)
   AAP Campaign: Seven Aspects of an Adoption (Long Version)
   An adoption doesn’t rigidly follow specific steps, though there are elements that are typical of most successful adoptions. This article, in both its short and long versions, will walk your team through these elements.
2. AAP Campaign Resources
   Introductory videos, books and other resources for assisting your efforts to initiate and sustain a people group adoption.
3. AAP Campaign Participating Agencies
   Want to know who to partner with in doing an adoption? Here is a list of agencies and denominations that are recognized for their identification with the AAP strategy.

ARTICLES

1. AAP Campaign Articles
   Eight select articles related to adoption.
2. Adoption Testimonials
   Ten churches that have successfully adopted one or more unreached people groups.
3. Focus on Human Communities, Not Missionaries, by David R. Hackett
   Yes, we love missionaries. But they are not the object of mission - the mission itself is. Churches discover that mission involvements are energized and made more attractive and sustainable when the focus is not on the missionary but rather on the targeted human community, or people group, itself. True local church mission happens when we escape that centrifugal force and begin to love and focus on the targeted human community that is beyond ourselves. (Read more)

BOOKS

1. Keys to the Nations
   This workbook is one of the most comprehensive resources available anywhere for senders and mobilizers focused on unreached peoples. Containing nearly 100 articles, it covers a broad range of issues: understanding unreached peoples, establishing effective partnerships among agencies and churches, facilitating people-group adoptions, maintaining security, fundraising, using the Internet, and much more. An invaluable tool to help you open doors to the kingdom. All new and updated! 261 pages, 2002.

FOR KIDS

1. Adopt-A-People for Kids
   by Gerry Dueck with Dale Burley
   This nicely-done curriculum and student manual has 10 flexible lessons that include activities, songs, certificates, a missions museum page, and a resource page. You are able to reproduce the student pages for ministry and classroom use. This is excellent for elementary age children.