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Executive Overview of the
Frontier Mission Alliance
Last Updated 5/3/2006
Introduction
The Frontier Mission Alliance is an evangelical, inter-denominational project with the goal of seeing a disciple-making movement among the 2,000 least-evangelized peoples of the 10/40 Window. The project is scheduled to run from 2006 to 2020. For the purposes of handling funds the Frontier Mission Alliance is also a registered 501c3 in the State of California. Apart from this, as a movement and broad-based coalition, the Frontier Mission Alliance is not under the governance of any particular organization. Its board and various committees and task forces will be made up of representatives from evangelical denominations and mission organizations for the entirety of its operation. Upon the completion of the project, expectedly on or before the year 2020, the incorporated organization will disband.
The Need
Though much has been accomplished through the frontier missions movement in the last 25 years, we are still in the beginning stages of seeing strong, indigenous disciple-making movements among the least-reached peoples of the 10/40 Window. In dialogue with mission leaders and field workers, three critical areas have emerged as missing elements:
1. Insufficient prayer force, (along with no coordinated mechanism for gauging which peoples are under-represented by prayer-cover commitments).
2. Lack of specialized training for initiating and sustaining disciple-making movements officiated by indigenous leadership.
3. Lack of ongoing, coordinated research to guide strategies and enhance cooperative inter-mission planning.
Meeting the Need
These three needs broadly fall under the categories of Mobilization, Training and Strategy. Though by no means a complete solution, embodied in the Frontier Mission Alliance are three major goals under these vital categories which will significantly contribute to a strong disciple-making movement among the 2,000 least reached peoples of the 10/40 Window:
Mobilization
The FMAlliance will enlist the commitment of over 40 million evangelical Christians to pray through the 10/40 Window Prayer Calendar on a daily basis, and hold them accountable through small groups and an online accountability system (www.prayeralliance.org).
Participants will be encouraged to form monthly prayer fellowships to pray for the affinity bloc in focus for that month. (For example, in January the focus will be on Central Asian Muslims.) In addition to praying through the 10/40 Window Prayer Calendar, participants will be encouraged to “adopt” in prayer one of the least-reached peoples on the 10/40 Window Priority List. This list includes 1,726 peoples which are over 10,000 in population, less than 1% evangelical Christian, and residing in the 10/40 Window region. In addition to this prayer effort, money will be raised each month as part of a strategic fund to “fill in the gaps” of outreach to the 10/40 Window. This Frontier Mission Fund will help establish several hundred Frontier Mission Centers throughout the 10/40 Window. The goal of these centers is to ensure that there is a disciple-making movement in every community of every least-reached people in the 10/40 Window by the year 2020.
Training
The FMAlliance will equip 100,000 missionaries (both existing and future) to train 1 million indigenous leaders who will coordinate sustainable disciple-making movements among all the least-reached peoples on the 10/40 Window Priority list.
The Frontier Mission Training Program will be constantly developing and revising its training curriculum. Each course has four components: selected readings, a study guide, video lectures, and mentor interaction (either online or at approved sites). Priority courses under development are:
++Introduction to reaching a people
++Introduction to frontier missionary work and practice
++Initiating and sustaining disciple-making movements
++Facilitating indigenous contextualization
++Ethnographic and socio-linguistic research
++Developing discipleship resources and methodologies
++Overcoming barriers in cross-cultural transmission and dissemination
++Transforming culture and society
Strategy
The FMAlliance will Establish 200 centers of research and development throughout the 10/40 Window in strategic locations to ensure the success of the Mobilization and Training initiatives, as well as providing a forum for inter-mission cooperation.
The first priorities of these centers will be to establish an ongoing program of church growth evaluation, analysis, and strategy implementation required to accomplish the goal of a discipled ethne. For example, each mega-people (or Gateway people cluster) of the 10/40 Window will have a center established on their behalf which will study the progress being made, look at what remains to be done, and design strategies to bridge the gap between the two. Where relevant, these centers may also develop training materials or oral-based training programs that will be useful in furthering the spread of the gospel among the target group or cluster of groups. These centers will also liaison with the 10/40 Window Prayer Campaign to provide secure prayer updates and with the Frontier Mission Fund to develop project proposals.
Frontier Mission Centers will be inter-agency projects with the purpose of seeing a disciple-making fellowship in every community of the target people. These are not “partnerships” in the current use of the term. The difference being they have pre-defined purposes and objectives. Those who participate do so on the basis of working together to fulfill those objectives. Ultimately these centers will be turned over to indigenous leaders who will continue their development with indigenous resources until the objectives are fulfilled. Overseeing these 200 Frontier Mission centers are twelve regional centers which are the communication and coordination hub for the Frontier Mission Alliance, and an International Strategy Center located in the heart of the 10/40 Window.
12 Affinity Blocs and Their Assigned Prayer Calendar Months
Including Least-Reached Peoples and Gateway-People Clusters
| Month | Affinity Bloc | Population | %Chr | LRP | GPC |
| January | Central Asian Muslim Peoples | 220,000,000 | 0.03% | 88 | 27 |
| February | Hindu Middle Caste Peoples | 300,000,000 | 0.07% | 363 | 74 |
| March | Least Reached Peoples of East Asia | 200,000,000 | 0.35% | 175 | 28 |
| April | Buddhist Peoples | 500,000,000 | 0.65% | 122 | 23 |
| May | West African Muslim Peoples | 120,000,000 | 0.05% | 172 | 25 |
| June | Hindu Lower Caste Peoples | 200,000,000 | 0.85% | 134 | 16 |
| July | South Asian Muslim Peoples | 400,000,000 | 0.01% | 147 | 29 |
| August | East African Muslim Peoples | 100,000,000 | 0.02% | 153 | 18 |
| September | N. African and Mid East Peoples | 320,000,000 | 0.01% | 69 | 28 |
| October | Tribal Peoples of South Asia | 100,000,000 | 1.05% | 130 | 8 |
| November | SE Asian Muslim Peoples | 200,000,000 | 0.02% | 139 | 19 |
| December | Upper Caste Peoples of South Asia | 200,000,000 | 0.01% | 46 | 40 |
10/40 Window Prayer Calendar in PDF form (2 page summary)
10/40 Window Prayer Calendar in PDF form (32 pages)
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