Pioneers is a Christian missions organization focused on

church planting Church planting is a term referring to the process (mostly in Protestant frameworks) that results in a new local Christian congregation being established. It should be distinguished from church development, where a new service, worship center or ...

among

unreached people group In Christianity, an unreached people group refers to an ethnic group without an indigenous, self-propagating Christian church movement. Any ethnic or ethnolinguistic nation without enough Christians to evangelize the rest of the nation is an "unrea ...

s. It was founded by former

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National Sales Manager Ted Fletcher in 1979 and has offices in

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, the UK,

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, and

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. Pioneers operates in 97 countries, training and supporting 3,077 international members serving on 345 teams among 207 people groups in 154 languages. Pioneers was originally called World Evangelical Outreach and adopted its current name in 1984. It was formed in response to

Ralph D. Winter Ralph Dana Winter (December 8, 1924 – May 20, 2009) was an American missiologist and Presbyterian missionary who helped pioneer Theological Education by Extension, raised the debate about the role of the church and mission structures and became ...

's description of the task of the church as reaching unreached ethnolinguistic people groups, and "set out to practice good missiology by contextualizing its mission and message to a postmodern missionary generation."

References

External links

Pioneers Website
Evangelical parachurch organizations Christian missions Christian missionary societies Christian organizations established in 1979 Christianity in Orlando, Florida Christian organizations established in the 20th century 1979 establishments in Florida {{Christian-org-stub