D.
Protestant Churches
Ralph Winter describes three eras in Protestant missions. The first era was
from 1792-1910, in which missions were conducted on the coastlands of Africa and Asia and islands of the Pacific. The second era was from 1865-1980 in
which missions were conducted in the inland areas in a thousand areas of the
world.The third era began in 1934, and is focused on reaching the unreached
peoples of the world. There are some 10,000 people groups in the world.
Unreached peoples differ so dramatically in ethnicity, language, or sociological traits from cultures in existing churches that missions efforts are needed to reach them Churches maybe planted throughout a country, and yet fail to reach certain peoples. Existing churches in an area maybe reaching the poor, and failing to reach the rich. Existing churches may include people of one dialect, and excluding people of another dialect. Existing churches may include one tribe, and exclude a tribe that has a history of animosity toward the first tribe. Winter writes that prior to 1792, Protestant missions were negligible. Since then,
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