Description: <div><font size="4">Diaspora Missions Collective (mPeople) is a multi-point data layer that includes people groups data originally collected by the peoplegroups.info initiative. Diaspora missions focuses on sharing Christ with people who are moving to or settling into life in a new country.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4"><b>Diaspora Missions Collective</b></font></div><div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4">The <a href="https://dmcollective.org/" target="_blank">Diaspora Missions Collective</a> equips Southern Baptist churches in their awareness, understanding, and engagement of diaspora peoples as they embrace their responsibility to fulfill the Great Commission both locally and globally.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4">A great opportunity exists to cast vision, mobilize, and equip North American churches to not only engage people groups globally, but also to fulfill the core missionary task among diaspora people groups who reside in our own neighborhoods. The nations are right next door! This new initiative, the Diaspora Missions Collective, is a cooperative effort of <a href="https://www.imb.org/" target="_blank">IMB</a>, <a href="https://namb.org/" target="_blank">NAMB</a>, <a href="https://www.sendrelief.org/" target="_blank">Send Relief</a>, <a href="https://wmu.com/" target="_blank">WMU</a>, and other SBC agencies. </font></div><div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4">As <a href="https://www.sbc.net/" target="_blank">Southern Baptist Convention</a> (SBC) organizations</font><span style="font-size:large;">, the Diaspora Missions Collective engages and works together to assist Southern Baptist churches missionally serve displaced peoples. As SBC organizations, we seek to partner together to equip Southern Baptist churches in their awareness, understanding, and engagement of diaspora peoples as they embrace their responsibility to fulfill the Great Commission both locally and globally.</span></div><div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4"><b>What are 'Collectives'?</b></font></div><div><font size="4"><br /></font></div><div><font size="4">Our Diaspora Missions Network is expanding through the multiplication of "Collectives". A Collective is a gathering of local pastors, association, and ministry leaders as well as others who are burdened to engage the spiritual needs of the unreached among the foreign-born populations in a particular city.</font></div>