New York! The place where dreams come true and fall makes people think of bouquets of sharpened pencils, Tom Hanks, and Meg Ryan. It’s also home to nearly 30% of the most unreached people groups in North America! There are 48 distinct people groups most in need of cross-cultural missionaries in Metro New York, which…
Many in North America don’t think of religion as their favorite dinner table topic. Yet for many newer arrivals, their religion is the reason they choose the food on their dinner table. For a majority of the world religions, faith is a part of daily discussions. It can dictate what they wear, what they eat,…
The great commission tells us to go into “all the world.” That phrase can literally be interpreted as “all the ethnicities” or “all the people groups.” And that’s why missionaries are always talking about unreached people groups of the world. The Joshua Project defines a people group as “the largest group within which the gospel…
If you are a follower of Jesus, the Great Commission is in your DNA. It’s the commission to follow in the ways of Jesus–to teach and baptize among all of the nations of the world (Matthew 28:18-20). Many people and cultures have received the good news of the gospel. You are probably a part of…
In a 21st century pilgrim’s progress, Chris Clayman takes us on a journey into God’s Superplan. An encounter with Jesus propels Clayman from his American Christian middle-class lifestyle into an adventure with God that leads him from Texas to Cambridge University to Muslim West Africa, eventually leading him to discover God’s global gateways to the…
Houston is the fourth largest city in the United States with a combined population of 6.3 million residents in the Houston metropolitan area. With more than 90 languages spoken in Greater Houston, it is also one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in the country. Global Gates is growing a team to serve…
When Islam spread rapidly after the death of Mohammed it spread both west and east. Today, the Islamic world spreads like a belt from West Africa all the way to Southeast Asia. These bookends of the Muslim world, however, do not view their constituents as fringe Muslims. Timbuktu, Mali in West Africa, analogous to many…
Two of the most volatile countries in the world over the last few decades, largely attributed to strict Islamic regimes, have been Iran and Afghanistan. Instable countries cause emigration which, in this case, has led to significant Afghan and Persian communities in Metro New York. Other Central Asian Muslim groups have been on the rise…
The history of Europe and Islam is long and fraught with war. If not for technologically advanced weaponry that helped Charles Martel stave off the advance of the Moors into 8th century France, Western Europe could have been swallowed into the Umayyad Muslim caliphate. Many centuries later, the Moors were pushed out from Spain and…
For an introduction to Arabs in Metro New York, including more detailed info on Egyptians, Palestinians, and Yemenis, see our last blog. Moroccan Unlike other Arab immigrant populations mentioned in this blog (Yemenis excluded), Moroccans do not have a significant Christian population. Besides a small Moroccan Jewish population in Metro New York, almost all Moroccan…
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