IMB Europe has written an article about small minority peoples in Europe that are unengaged by evangelical witness. The author is writing from a staunchly evangelical, Baptist perspective, thus considering nominal Roman Catholic Italians in France to be unreached. Nevertheless this is a good example of a passionate focus on the small pockets of unengaged peoples within largely open countries. It is in just these sorts of situations that tons of unevangelized people groups currently live. (Similar sorts of situations exist in India and Africa, for example).
Of more interest perhaps is the current trend in the IMB to seek the engagement of every people group by a Baptist church. I am curious about this particular initiative and the motivation behind it. Is it simply a trend seeking greater involvement in missions on the part of Southern Baptist churches–or, more ominously, does it portend a return to an older view of the Southern Baptist Convention, in which it thinks it can do the task on its own? I pray the latter is not the case!
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