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November - December 1995 The Editorial Comment of Ralph D. Winter
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How to Access Additional Data on the Joshua Project 2000 Peoples By Pete Holzmann - AD2000 Interactive Task Force Coordinator, & Doug Lucas - Brigada Forums Coordinator Need information on one of the Joshua Project 2000 listed peoples? You can now retrieve people group data on-line: interactively via the World Wide Web (on America Online, Compuserve, or other services) or using any of the many e-mail services around the world. The “People Group Consultant” (PGC) is a cooperative venture made up of a number of different agencies and researchers, including the AD2000 and Beyond Movement. You can access the People Group Consultant in two different ways: simple e-mail searches or even easier searches (and updates!) via the World Wide Web. Easy Access: Via E-mail Only The most basic approach is through a simple e-mail exchange. An e-mail search of PGC will provide a short list of information about any people group, such as population in each country or churches that have already adopted the people. For example, to use this method to search for information on the Yemeni people group, send an e-mail message to the address: hub@xc.org with only the following line in the body of the e-mail message: search Yemeni It does not matter what you write in the “subject” section. The hub computer will immediately e-mail you the results. (You will receive the message usually within a few minutes or possibly several hours if your e-mail service is slow.) For other people groups, simply replace the word “Yemeni” with the name of the group you are researching. Easier Access: Via the World Wide Web If you have access to the World Wide Web (i.e. America Online, Compuserve, Netcom, etc.), you can use the People Group Consultant more fully and easily. Type in the following World Wide Web address (also called a “URL”): You will see a form showing you how to search (fill in a blank and press the SEARCH button) or respond (click on the appropriate button). If you do a search, in a few seconds you will see your results in the form of two charts, one based on country data and the other organized by the people group itself. There are many other helpful World Wide Web resources for learning about a nation, people or language. “http://www2.infoseek.com/Query?” searches millions of documents around the world for anything relating to any word you type! Finally, new Joshua Project 2000 updates will always be listed at the AD2000 and Beyond Movement’s World Wide Web home page (at http://www.ad2000.org). Hundreds of pages of information gathered at the Global Consultation on World Evangelization ’95 are also found there, as well as updated information about how to access the complete database and listing of least-reached peoples.
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