Unreached people groups

This passed week I was looking up unreached people groups, since one of my best friends Ruth was telling me that their family used to pray each day for a different unreached people group and I thought that was a really good idea. So I found a website I really like, Joshua Project. Here are a few definitions they give:

People group: "For evangelization purposes, a people group is the largest group within which the Gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understanding or acceptance."

Unreached people group: A people group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize this people group.

They list the Top 100 largest groups, but there are 6,818 out of the total of 16,295 ethnic groups on this planet. There are a total of 2,71 billion people who are part of an unreached people group. That's over 41% of the world's population. It's a huge number.

"5,100 people groups in the world have neither Scripture portions or Gospel radio available in their primary language, comprising 463,000,000 individuals."

If you would pray for one unreached people group every day, it would take 18 years and 2 months to pray for all the groups. You can take 6 groups a day and you would be done in about 3 years. It's totally doable!

Job opening!

My mom sent me this over email and i thought it was funny

"POSITION:
Mom, Mommy, Mama, Ma
Dad, Daddy, Dada, Pa, Pop

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Long term, team players needed, for challenging permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include evenings and weekends and frequent 24 hour shifts on call. Some overnight travel required, including trips to Primitive camping sites on rainy weekends and endless sports tournaments in far away cities! Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The rest of your life.
Must be willing to be hated, at least temporarily,
Until someone needs $5.
Must be willing to bite tongue repeatedly.
Also, must possess the physical stamina of a pack mule and be able to go from zero to 60 mph in three seconds flat in case, this time, the screams from the backyard are not someone just crying wolf.
Must be willing to face stimulating technical challenges, such as small gadget repair, mysteriously sluggish toilets and stuck zippers.
Must screen phone calls, maintain calendars and coordinate production of multiple homework projects.
Must have ability to plan and organize social gatherings for clients of all ages and mental outlooks.
Must be willing to be indispensable one minute, an embarrassment the next.
Must handle assembly and product safety testing of a half million cheap, plastic toys, and battery operated devices.
Must always hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.
Must assume final, complete accountability for the quality of the end product.
Responsibilities also include floor maintenance and janitorial work throughout the facility.

POSSIBILITY FOR ADVANCEMENT & PROMOTION:
None.
Your job is to remain in the same position for years, without complaining, constantly retraining and updating your skills, so that those in your charge can ultimately surpass you.

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE :

None required unfortunately.
On-the-job training offered on a continually exhausting basis.

WAGES AND COMPENSATION :

Get this! You pay them!
Offering frequent raises and bonuses. A balloon payment is due when they turn 18 because of the assumption that college will help them become financially independent.
When you die, you give them whatever is left.
The oddest thing about this reverse-salary scheme is that you actually enjoy it and wish you could only do more.

BENEFITS :

While no health or dental insurance, no pension, no tuition reimbursement, no paid holidays and no stock options are offered;
this job supplies limitless opportunities for personal growth, unconditional love, and free hugs and kisses for life if you play your cards right.

Forward this on to all the PARENTS you know, in appreciation for everything they do on a daily basis, letting them know they are appreciated for the fabulous job they do... or forward with love
to anyone thinking of applying for the job.
** AND A FOOTNOTE,
THERE IS NO RETIREMENT -- EVER"

Reading the last paragraph, i must say this: i'm not a parent and i'm pretty sure my mom doesn't believe that i am a parent.

Postmodernism is swallowing up our world

Today I saw that gmail users can set up the time they are sending the email. This makes time relative. You can't prove that the time you have sent the email is actually the time you have sent the email. On the web page where Gmail is promoting this new feature, there are a couple of funny "testimonials":

"The entire concept of 'late' no longer exists for me. That's pretty cool. Thanks Gmail!"

"I just got two tickets to Radiohead by being the 'first' to respond to a co-worker's 'first-come, first-serve' email. Someone else had already won them, but I told everyone to check their inboxes again. Everyone sort of knows I used Custom Time on this one, but I'm denying it."

"I used to be an honest person; but now I don't have to be. It's just so much easier this way. I've gained a lot of productivity by not having to think about doing the 'right' thing."

I wonder if postmodernism started as a joke..

Update: I'm glad this was a joke.