Houston, Meet Houston:

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Houston, Meet Houston

• Insights from People Group Research

Quarterly Association Meeting- April 18, 2006
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Houston- City of Diversity

• Of cities with 100,000 people
• Houston ranks 15th
• Of cities with 500,000 people
• Houston ranks 5th
• (NY, Dallas, San Jose, Chicago)

-http//www.city-data.com
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Top Nationalities in Houston
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Whats a People Group?

• An ethno-linguistic group with a common self
  identity that is shared by the various members.
• Factors for identifying a people group
• Language
• Ethnicity
• Common self-name
• Sense of common identity
• Common history
• Customs
• Family and clan identities
• -Dr. Orville Boyd Jenkins

Worldview
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Whats a Worldview?

• A set of commonly held values, ideas, and images
  concerning the nature of reality and the role of
  humanity within it. (Nelson)
• Any ideology, philosophy, theology, movement, or
  religion that provides an overarching approach to
  understanding God, the world, and man's relation
  to God and the world. (The Summit Group)

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How Many Worldviews?

• Houston has 264-299 ethno-linguistic people
  groups from 139 nationalities.
• If Houston were a country, it would rank 7th for
  most people groups, right after the U.S. and
  right above Brazil.
• There are at least 144 languages actively spoken
  in Houston, but most assuredly more that have not
  yet been confirmed.
• No one knows how many worldviews this represents.

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Research Methodology

• Concrete sources
• US Census
• Schools
• Local non-profit organizations
• Local Governments/ Chambers of Commerce
• State/ Local Baptist Convention resources
• Professional source demographics (link2lead,
  Houston Profile Project)

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Research Methodology

• Field sources
• Personal interviews
• Written/Oral Surveys
• Windshield surveys
• Anthropological observations

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Defining Lostness

• Unreached People Group
• A people group in which less than 2 of the
  population are Evangelical Christians.
• Last Frontier People Group
• A people group which is unreached and has not had
  a new evangelical church started within the past
  two years.
• Evangelical
• An Evangelical Christian is a person who believes
  that Jesus Christ is the sole source of salvation
  through faith in Him, has personal faith and
  conversion with regeneration by the Holy Spirit,
  recognizes the inspired word of God as the only
  basis for faith and Christian living, and is
  committed to Biblical preaching and evangelism
  that brings others to faith in Jesus Christ.

-International Mission Board, Global Research
Department
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How Many Are Unreached?
-International Mission Board, Global Research
Department
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People Group Populations
-International Mission Board, Global Research
Department
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Japanese Population in Harris County by Census
Tracts, 2000
Inset A
Inset B
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10,246 Korean (Single race) 0.2 of
Population For all census tracts on map
Montgomery
Liberty
Waller
Fort Bend
Brazoria
Galveston
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22,359 Filipino (Single race) 0.5 of
Population For all census tracts on map
Montgomery
Liberty
Waller
Fort Bend
Brazoria
Galveston
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44,980 Chinese (Single race) 1.0 of
Population For all census tracts on map
Montgomery
Liberty
Waller
Fort Bend
Brazoria
Galveston
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51,737 Asian Indian (Single race) 1.1 of
Population For all census tracts on map
Montgomery
Liberty
Waller
Fort Bend
Brazoria
Galveston
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63,723 Vietnamese (Single race) 1.4 of
Population For all census tracts on map
Montgomery
Liberty
Waller
Fort Bend
Brazoria
Galveston
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1,335,500 Hispanics 29 of Population For all
census tracts on map
Montgomery
Liberty
Waller
Fort Bend
Brazoria
Galveston
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1,335,500 Hispanics 29 of Population For all
census tracts on map
Montgomery
Liberty
Waller
Fort Bend
Brazoria
Galveston
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State of the Church in Houston

• 51,000 Asian Indians 1 UBA church
• 22,000 Filipino 5 UBA churches
• 60,000 Vietnamese 5 UBA churches
• 45,000 Chinese 9 UBA churches
• 9,000 Koreans 13 UBA churches

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Before We Proceed

• Myths about people groups
• Muslims are a people group
• Africans are the same people group as African
  Americans
• All Hispanics are the same people group
• My church wants to adopt all the members of one
  people group in the city
• My church is very welcoming of anyone who comes
  in the door- isnt that enough?

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So What Do We Do?

• People Group Awareness
• Participate in a City-Tour
• People Group adoption church planting
• Plant churches in people groups
• Host people group congregations
• Prayer
• For missionaries to engage people groups
• For churches to be missionally minded
• People Group Research updates

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• Josh Ellis
• Union Baptist Association
• 2916 West T.C. Jester, Suite 200
• Houston, TX 77018
• joshellis_at_ubahouston.org
• 281-787-9672