Evangelism Project: The Mangyan as Gentiles

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Dear Student,
Hi and thank you for using Brainmass. The solution below should get you started. In this particular task, you are asking for help in putting together a discussion on the topic of Evangelism towards a different people and a culture that is other than yourself. I suggest using a particular culture that you might know but not be familiar with and looking into that culture, or group of people and their traditions. I have utilized my own familiarity with a particular group of people/tribe from the Philippines who have knowledge of Christianity but are still very insular and have limited contact with the larger society and the modern world. It is this group of people to whom such actions are meant for as doing so would achieve the goals of evangelism. I suggest using this simple outline:
Evangelising the Mangyan
About the Group and their history (800 words)
- Core values
- Facilitators/barriers to relationship development
- What motivates the group (why do they get up in the morning)
- Interviews with key members
- Decision making process
- Historical information (evangelization)
- Additional categories as appropriate for the group under study
Application/Evangelism Project (700 words)
- Overview of Evangelism Plans
- Gatekeepers and Barriers because of culture, values and worldviews/differences
- Future Action
- Resources

This outline should yield up to 1,500 words which should cover what you need. You can expand the discussion by adding elements from your course materials. You can also use the listed resources to further explore the topic. Just let me know via the feedback section if you need further clarification. All the best with your studies.

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AE 105878/Xenia Jones

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Evangelism Project:
The Mangyan Tribe of Mindoro Island, Philippines
"I have made you a light for the Gentiles,
that you may bring salvation to the ends of the earth."
Acts 13:47

Abstract: A narrative that describes the Mangyan tribe of Mindoro, Philippines and the reason behind why they are a good choice of evangelization.

Preach to All Creation
In Acts 13:47 (dailyverses.net, 2022), the role of a Christian, and not just of an Apostle has been laid out - as a 'light' for others who have yet to know and find their way to God. The responsibility of those with the knowledge and ability to bring others salvation is being that light, as a messenger and communicator of the news - that through testifying the good news of God's grace and Jesus Christ's sacrifice, by following God's commandments and living with the guidance of faith, we may be freed from the shackles of sin and damnation and through said grace seek repentance and the blessing of eternal life. The gentiles referred to in the Bible generally mean as someone who is 'not a Jew' but overtime has come to mean as people who are other, outsiders of another faith, another culture whose ways and beliefs are foreign and to the Christian belief, pagan. In our time, of the 7.9 billion people that make up the human population of the world (worldometers.info, 2019), 2.5 billion follow Christianity as their religion (countrymeters.info, 2022), making up 31.7% of the entire population. Folk or traditional religion followers number at 448,142,399 or 5.6% of the global population. Following the charge of evangelizing, to be a light to the 5.6% as a Christian task appears to be a given.

The Mangyan
In far-off places from Western influence, many tribes still practice their folk beliefs and way of life. Although modernization might have touched them, and they might even have come across Christian practices, they still live a way of life that is far closer to that of their ancestors than of people and society of the present. It is plausible to refer to them as part of the Gentiles spoken about in the scriptures and to engage with them to introduce the way to God is to evangelize as 'a light'.
In the island of Mindoro, in central Philippines, an indigenous group of people called the Mangyans still live a way of life that is far more akin to that of their ancestors due to the tribe's ways of reclusive living, with little or no contact to the outside world. The Magnyan as an indigenous group number to between 100,00 to 280,000 dependent upon the inclusion of certain tribal groups within the Mangyan indigenous umbrella (Mangyan Heritage Center, 2010). Mangyan is the collective name of 8 tribes, with each of these 8 tribes having their own name, language (although the 8 tribes share a similarity in this) and customs. The tribes are - Iraya, Alangan, Tadyawan, Tau-buid, Buhid, Hanunuo and Ratagnon. The island of Mindoro is the seventh largest island in the Philippines and not as progressive as the islands of Luzon ...