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| CPPI - Church
Planting Progress Indicators |
The name for the International Mission Board's database containing descriptive
and strategic data on all people groups of the world.
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| FIPS - Federal
Information Processing Standards Codes |
Federal Information Processing Standards Codes for geopolitical entities from
the U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard No. 10 "Countries,
Dependencies, Areas of Special Sovereignty, and Their Principal Administrative
Divisions" (also known as FIPS 10). The current FIPSPUB10-4 provides a list of
the basic geopolitical entities in the world, together with the principal
administrative divisions that comprise each entity. Each basic geopolitical
entity is represented by a two-character, alphabetic country code. Each
principal administrative division is identified by a four-character code
consisting of the two-character country code followed by a two-character
administrative division code.
http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/fips10-4.html
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| GRD - Global Research
Department |
The Global Research Department of the International Mission Board, SBC gathers
and analyzes information collected through a global network of research
coordinators.
http://www.imb.org/globalresearch/
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| HIS - Harvest Information System |
The Harvest Information System is a cooperative effort of several organizations
who share a desire to facilitate the task of taking the gospel of Jesus Christ
to all the peoples of the world. HIS assists mission sending groups in
fulfilling their portion of the task, by improving the sharing of information
through the standardizing of categories and codes.
http://www.harvestinformationsystem.info/
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| IMB - International
Mission Board |
The International Mission Board (formerly Foreign Mission Board) is an entity
of the Southern Baptist Convention, the nation's largest evangelical
denomination, claiming more than 40,000 churches with nearly 16 million
members. The board's main objective is presenting the gospel of Jesus Christ in
order to lead individuals to saving faith in Him and result in church-planting
movements among all the peoples of the world.
http://www.imb.org/
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| PopEntID - Population
Entity Identification Number |
A unique number identifying a specific people group as listed in the CPPI
database of the International Mission Board's Global Research Department (GRD).
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| ROL - Registry of Languages |
This registry (of the Harvest Information System) defines codes for identifying
the languages of the world and is maintained by Wycliffe International.
http://www.harvestinformationsystem.info/
http://www.wycliffe.net
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| ROP - Registry of Peoples |
This registry defines codes for identifying the ethnolinguistic people groups
of the world and is maintained by the Global Research Department (GRD).
http://www.harvestinformationsystem.info/
http://www.imb.org/globalresearch/
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| ROR - Registry of
Religions |
This registry (of the Harvest Information System) defines codes for identifying
the religions of the world and is currently under development.
http://www.harvestinformationsystem.info/
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| GSEC - Global Status of Evangelical Christianity |
A model which describes the progress of
the Gospel among the peoples of the world.
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