Now that I'm back in from the SBC in Houston, I wanted to pick back up with the 7th tool in the Missionary Toolbox, as adapted from IMB's Profile Method that strategy coordinators are taught: Economic Profiling. Here are some questions that might help:
1. What are the most common jobs among your people group?
2. Is the economy based on agriculture or industry, or both?
3. Where do people get their money?
4. What is an average monthly wage?
5. What products do your people produce? What determines their price?
6. Who does business with your people?
7. Who controls the financial institutions, public institutions?
8. What is the influence of free market economy, capitalism, socialism, communism?
9. What is their current health care status?
10. Describe their homes, their neighborhoods/villages, their cities.
11. What do your people eat regularly?
12. How costly are utilities?
13. What constitutes proper clothes? Who has "wealthy" clothes?
The biggest insight here might be this: once you answer the questions above, describe your own economic lifestyle. How different is the way you live from the way they live? Is this a barrier to the gospel & planting new churches?
1. What are the most common jobs among your people group?
2. Is the economy based on agriculture or industry, or both?
3. Where do people get their money?
4. What is an average monthly wage?
5. What products do your people produce? What determines their price?
6. Who does business with your people?
7. Who controls the financial institutions, public institutions?
8. What is the influence of free market economy, capitalism, socialism, communism?
9. What is their current health care status?
10. Describe their homes, their neighborhoods/villages, their cities.
11. What do your people eat regularly?
12. How costly are utilities?
13. What constitutes proper clothes? Who has "wealthy" clothes?
The biggest insight here might be this: once you answer the questions above, describe your own economic lifestyle. How different is the way you live from the way they live? Is this a barrier to the gospel & planting new churches?
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