FIRST PEOPLES INITIATIVE NORTH AMERICA

Billy Graham once referred to First Peoples in the United States as “America’s sleeping spiritual giants who are awakening.” When it comes to First Peoples in North America, approximately 7.2 million First Peoples live within this continent, or about 5.2 million in the United States and another 2 million in Canada. Also, there are approximately 572 tribes in the United States alone, and tribes have different languages and other cultural practices. For a variety of reasons, including the church too often overlooking tribal people groups in North America and many tribal people viewing Jesus as the “Whiteman’s God”, many of these people have never met, known, or followed Jesus. Furthermore, tribal people possess great gospel potential, but many things are keeping these people from achieving their God-given potential. One such thing is suicide as the suicide rate in tribal communities is the highest out of any people group in the United States.

In response to the great spiritual need among First Peoples in North America, the vision of the First Peoples initiative is to catalyze gospel movements among these people groups for the purpose of reaching approximately 1% of the population (70,000 people) for Jesus, so that First Peoples can then be raised up to participate in God’s global mission.

Projects

• Missing and Murdered Indigenous women

• Church planting/church revitalization

• Business as Mission

• Sports Ministry

• Next Generation

• Reconciliation, Justice, and Healing Ministry