Global.Church Core OntologyPractice Type SchemeAssessment Methodology SchemeEndorsement Status SchemeEndorsement Type SchemeResource Status SchemeResource Format SchemeResource Domain SchemeResource Function SchemeEngagement Type SchemeClaim Status Scheme

A ministry organization, church, alliance, network, denomination, or sending agency. Central organizational entity in the Global.Church schema. All organization subtypes (churches, agencies, networks, etc.) are instances of this class, classified via gc:hasOrganizationType → OrganizationTypeScheme SKOS concepts. Multi-valued: an org can have multiple types (e.g., a megachurch that also runs a mission agency). Modeled as an Agentive Social Object (DOLCE ASO) with collective intentionality — orgs can commit to serving people groups, endorse peers, deploy workers, and bear responsibility for ministry activities.

• has organization type ^op
• organization domain ^dp
• website ^dp
• phone ^dp
• email ^dp
• summary ^dp
• logo URL ^dp
• banner URL ^dp
• giving URL ^dp
• social media URL ^dp
• is multi-campus ^dp
• campus name ^dp
• overarching name ^dp
• services info ^dp
• has belief classification ^op
• has denomination classification ^op

• assessed by ^op
• endorsing organization ^op
• endorsed organization ^op
• resource provider ^op
• claiming organization ^op

A working group of persons collaborating on field activities within or across organizations.

A recurring ministry activity that a church community performs, such as baptism, communion, prayer, teaching, worship, giving, accountability, or serving. Modeled as a subclass of MinistryActivity because practices are things that happen in context — they have participants, timing, and qualifiers — not static boolean attributes of a church. Aligns with ChurchCore's treatment of practices as Ministry Activities.

• practice type ^op
• practice is active ^dp
• is performed internally ^dp
• practice frequency ^dp
• practice date adopted ^dp

A type of practice from the practice vocabulary. Modeled as a SKOS Concept so the vocabulary is extensible without schema changes.

A geospatial place record sourced from the Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org) open-source map dataset. In the Global.Church schema, Overture records represent church or place-of-worship locations identified via the Overture Maps 'places' theme. Each record is an entity with spatial coordinates and metadata linking it to people groups and locations.

• Overture ID ^dp
• Overture category ^dp
• targets people group ^op

An ethno-linguistic people group linked to the HIS Registry of Peoples via gc:hasPeopleClassification.

• has people classification ^op
• people group name ^dp
• evangelical percentage ^dp
• population in country ^dp
• population ^dp
• global population ^dp
• name across countries ^dp
• count of countries ^dp
• primary language ^dp
• continent ^dp
• region ^dp
• country name ^dp
• affinity bloc ^dp
• people cluster ^dp
• photo URL ^dp

• serves people group ^op
• targets people group ^op
• engages people group ^op
• assesses people group ^op
• result for people group ^op
• resource for people group ^op
• claimed people group ^op

A geographic location where ministry activities occur. Corresponds to locationOfActivity and area objects in GCData schemas.

• country code ^dp
• latitude ^dp
• longitude ^dp
• address ^dp
• locality ^dp
• region ^dp
• postal code ^dp
• coordinate reference system ^dp
• polygon GeoJSON ^dp

Abstract base class for all field ministry activities. Every ministry activity is a prov:Activity performed by agents at a location involving people groups.

• date-time of activity ^dp
• at location ^op
• engages people group ^op
• in language ^op
• concerns religion ^op
• uses methodology ^op
• uses resource ^op

• Practice ^c
• Church Formation ^c
• Gospel Conversation ^c
• Prayer Walk ^c
• Discipleship Activity ^c
• Baptism Activity ^c
• Leadership Development ^c
• Media Distribution ^c
• Training Activity ^c

The activity of forming or planting a new church gathering. Generates a Church entity. Corresponds to entityType 'Church' in EEP.

An evangelistic conversation where the gospel is shared with one or more people. Tracks response outcomes (positive, interested, negative, unknown, already following). Corresponds to entityType 'GospelConversation' in EEP.

• total heard ^dp
• positive response ^dp
• interested response ^dp
• negative response ^dp
• unknown response ^dp
• already following response ^dp
• language of conversation ^dp

A prayer activity covering a geographic area. Corresponds to entityType 'PrayerWalk' in EEP.

A discipleship session or program engaging believers in spiritual growth. Corresponds to entityType 'Discipleship' in EEP.

The activity of baptizing one or more new believers (from GAPPSRVC taxonomy).

Training or mentoring activity for developing ministry leaders (from GAPPSRVC taxonomy).

Distribution of gospel media materials such as films, audio, or literature (from GAPPSRVC taxonomy).

A training event or program for equipping field workers (from GAPPSRVC taxonomy).

An evaluation of a people group by an organization using a specific methodology. Assessments answer questions like 'how reached is this group?', 'what resources are available?', or 'what phase of progress has been achieved?' Each assessment is performed at a specific point in time, by a specific organization, using a declared methodology. The methodology identifies what was measured and how. An assessment produces one or more result snapshots containing the actual data points.

• assessment date ^dp
• assessment methodology ^op
• assessed by ^op
• assesses people group ^op

A snapshot of findings from an assessment. Contains the org-specific data points produced by the assessment activity. The result is immutable — when the organization reassesses, a new Assessment/Result pair is created. Old results persist in the graph for temporal tracking.

• GSEC level ^op
• SPI category ^op
• church planting status ^op
• LPI score ^dp
• is engaged ^dp
• congregations exist ^dp
• Bible availability ^dp
• Jesus Film availability ^dp
• radio availability ^dp
• gospel availability ^dp
• audio availability ^dp
• stories availability ^dp
• resource total ^dp
• Bible completion level ^dp
• evangelical level ^op
• result for people group ^op
• result date ^dp
• JP Progress Scale ^dp
• JP Progress Scale description ^dp
• JP Progress Scale global ^dp
• least reached ^dp
• frontier ^dp
• in 10/40 Window ^dp
• primary religion ^dp
• religion code ^dp
• percent Christian ^dp
• percent Islam ^dp
• Bible status ^dp
• Bible year ^dp
• New Testament year ^dp
• Jesus Film code ^dp
• has audio recordings ^dp
• has gospel radio ^dp
• security level ^dp

An organizational endorsement — a certification, partnership, affiliation, or accreditation from a recognized body. Applies to any gc:Organization (churches, agencies, networks, etc.). Reified as a first-class entity because endorsements have their own properties (date granted, expiration, status, type). Provides multi-source trust signals on organization records.

• endorsing organization ^op
• endorsed organization ^op
• endorsed date ^dp
• endorsement expiration date ^dp
• endorsement status ^op
• endorsement type ^op

A status value for an endorsement from the endorsement status vocabulary.

A type of endorsement from the endorsement type vocabulary.

A deployable resource available for or needed by a people group. Classified along three orthogonal dimensions: content domain (gc:resourceDomain), delivery format (gc:resourceFormat), and pedagogical function (gc:resourceFunction).

• target audience ^op
• affinity region ^op
• resource name ^dp
• resource URL ^dp
• date published ^dp
• resource for people group ^op
• resource language ^op
• resource provider ^op
• resource status ^op
• resource format ^op
• resource domain ^op
• resource function ^op
• related accelerator ^op
• completion percentage ^dp
• estimated completion date ^dp
• part of collection ^op

A curated set of resources forming a coherent series, curriculum, or toolkit (e.g., a teaching series, a numbered paper collection, a multi-lesson curriculum).

Lifecycle status of a mission resource.

Delivery format or medium of a resource, orthogonal to content type.

A self-reported assertion by an organization about its current or recent engagement with one or more people groups. Collected through the onboarding flow when ministry leaders declare what types of engagement work their organization is doing (e.g., church planting, Bible translation, prayer). Provenance: use prov:wasAttributedTo to link the claim to the agent who registered it.

• claiming organization ^op
• claimed people group ^op
• claimed country ^op
• engagement type ^op
• claim date ^dp
• claim status ^op
• claim description ^dp

A status value for an engagement claim from the claim status vocabulary.

Classifies an organization by type. Values are SKOS concepts from gc:OrganizationTypeScheme (Church, Mission Agency, Denomination, Network, Coalition, Seminary, Parachurch Ministry). Multi-valued: an org can have multiple types.

Classifies an organization by belief tradition. Values are SKOS concepts from gc:BeliefTypeScheme (Christian, Catholic, Orthodox, LDS, JW, Other). Multi-valued.

Classifies an organization by denomination. Values are SKOS concepts from gc:DenominationScheme (Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, etc.). Multi-valued.

Links an organization to a practice activity it performs. Replaces the old flat boolean practice properties.

Classifies a practice by its type from the PracticeType vocabulary.

Links an organization to a people group it primarily serves or ministers to. Multi-valued: an organization can serve multiple people groups. Distinct from gc:targetsPeopleGroup (geographic association on Overture records) — this property represents intentional ministry focus declared by the organization.

Links an Overture place record (or other entity) to a people group associated with its geographic area.

Links a PeopleGroup to its classification in the HIS Registry of Peoples (ROP) SKOS concept scheme. The linked SKOS concept carries the raw code via skos:notation and the hierarchy via skos:broader.

Links an entity to its language classification in the HIS Registry of Languages (ROL) SKOS concept scheme. The linked SKOS concept carries the ISO 639-3 code via skos:notation and the language name via skos:prefLabel.

Links an entity to its religion classification in the HIS Registry of Religions (ROR) SKOS concept scheme. The linked SKOS concept carries the ROR code via skos:notation and the religion name via skos:prefLabel.

Links an entity to its geography classification in the HIS Registry of Geography (ROG) SKOS concept scheme. Three-level hierarchy: Region → Subregion → Country. The linked SKOS concept carries the ROG code via skos:notation and the place name via skos:prefLabel.

IMB Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC) level for a people group. Ranges from 0 (no known evangelical Christians) to 6 (significant, self-sustaining evangelical movement). Lower values indicate less reached.

IMB Strategic Priority Index (SPI) category. Values are SKOS concepts from imb:SPIScheme (3 categories: Unengaged/Unreached, Engaged/Unreached, No Longer Unreached).

IMB church planting status. Values are SKOS concepts from imb:ChurchPlantingStatusScheme (No Churches Planted, Dispersed, Concentrated).

IMB categorical evangelical percentage band. Values are SKOS concepts from imb:EvangelicalLevelScheme (11 bands, from 'No Known Evangelicals' to '75% or Greater'). Complements JP's numeric jp:evangelicalPercentage with a classified band.

IMB audience classification for a media resource. Values are SKOS concepts from imb:TargetAudienceScheme (8 categories: Men, Women, Students, Refugees, Children, Nationals, Diaspora, Oral Learners).

IMB affinity-based regional classification for a media resource. Values are SKOS concepts from imb:AffinityRegionScheme (11 regions). IMB's affinity regions are not 1:1 with ISO geographic regions.

Links a ministry activity to the geographic location where it occurred.

Links a ministry activity to a people group it engaged.

Links a ministry activity to the language used during the activity. Points to a ROL SKOS concept.

Links a ministry activity to the religious background of the engaged people. Points to a ROR SKOS concept.

Links a ministry activity to the strategic methodology used. Values are SKOS concepts from gc:MethodologyScheme (CPM, DMM, Four Fields, T4T, Traditional Church Planting).

The methodology or framework used for this assessment. Points to a SKOS concept in gc:AssessmentMethodologyScheme.

The organization that performed this assessment.

Links an Assessment to the PeopleGroup being evaluated.

Links an AssessmentResult to the PeopleGroup it describes.

The organization that granted this endorsement.

The organization that received this endorsement.

Links an organization to an endorsement it has received. Convenience navigation property (inverse direction of gc:endorsedOrganization).

Current status of the endorsement.

Classifies the endorsement by type from the EndorsementType vocabulary.

Links a resource to a people group it targets or serves. Multi-valued.

The language of the resource. Points to ROL SKOS concepts. Multi-valued for multilingual resources.

Organization that created or provides the resource. Multi-valued for co-productions.

Current lifecycle status of the resource.

The delivery format or medium of the resource, orthogonal to its content type. Multi-valued when the same content is available in multiple formats.

The content domain of the resource (e.g., Scripture, Evangelism, Discipleship, Leadership). Multi-valued — a resource can span multiple domains. Constrained via SHACL to gc:ResourceDomainScheme concepts.

How the resource is used — its pedagogical or ministry function (e.g., Curriculum, Manual, Tool, Broadcast). Constrained via SHACL to gc:ResourceFunctionScheme concepts.

Links a resource to an engagement accelerator concept it contributes to (e.g., Scripture, Film, Church Planting). Values are SKOS concepts.

Links a ministry activity to a resource used during that activity. Enables tracking which resources are actually being deployed.

Links an individual resource to the collection or series it belongs to.

The organization that made this engagement claim.

A people group that the organization claims to be engaged with. Multi-valued — an org may claim engagement across multiple people groups in a single claim.

The country where this engagement takes place. Points to a ROG SKOS concept (e.g., rog:PK for Pakistan). Optional — if absent, the claim applies to the people group globally.

The type of engagement work being done. Points to SKOS concepts from gc:EngagementTypeScheme (Church Planting, Discipleship, Bible Translation, etc.). Multi-valued — an org can do multiple types of engagement with the same people group.

Current status of the engagement claim. Points to SKOS concepts from gc:ClaimStatusScheme (Active, Paused, Completed, Withdrawn).

Links an organization to an engagement claim it has made. Convenience navigation property (inverse direction of gc:claimingOrganization).

The verified email domain for this organization (e.g., 'lausanne.org'). Used for Web3Auth org claiming — when a user signs up with an email matching this domain, they can claim admin access to the org.

Primary website URL for this organization.

Primary phone number for this organization.

Primary contact email for this organization.

A brief description of the organization — LLM-generated or user-provided.

URL of the organization's logo image.

URL of the organization's banner image.

URL for online donations or giving to this organization.

A social media profile URL for this organization. Multi-valued — an organization can have multiple social media accounts.

Whether this church operates multiple campus locations.

Name of this specific campus (if the organization is multi-campus).

Name of the parent organization or overarching church body (if this org is a campus or subsidiary).

Free-text description of service times and gathering schedule.

Whether the organization is currently active (subset: church_core).

Date the organization was established or began meeting (subset: church_core).

Date the organization ceased operations, if applicable (subset: church_core).

Whether the group self-identifies as a church (subset: church_core).

Whether the organization has appointed its own leaders (subset: church_core).

Whether this practice is currently being performed by the church.

Whether this practice is performed by a member of the gathering itself (true) or by an external person (false). Replaces the paired 'practicesXxxWithin' boolean properties from the old schema.

How often the practice occurs (e.g., 'weekly', 'monthly', 'as needed').

Date when the church began performing this practice.

Total number of people attending the gathering.

Number of believers in the gathering.

Number of baptized believers in the gathering.

The language used during church gatherings.

The unique identifier of a place record in the Overture Maps dataset.

The Overture Maps place category (e.g., 'place_of_worship', 'church').

Human-readable name of the people group.

Estimated percentage of the people group population that is evangelical Christian, as reported by Joshua Project using Operation World methodology. A theological (not political) measure counting all people affiliated with denominations evangelical in theology. A people group below 2% evangelical is considered unreached on the JP Progress Scale. Value between 0.0 and 100.0.

Estimated population of the people group within the specific country.

ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (e.g., 'EGY', 'USA').

Latitude of the location center.

Longitude of the location center.

Street address of the location.

City or locality name.

State, province, or administrative region.

Postal or ZIP code.

EPSG code for the coordinate reference system (default 4326 = WGS84).

GeoJSON RFC 7946 polygon defining the geographic boundary of an engagement area.

Language Priority Index (0–6) assigned by IMB.

Whether the people group has active engagement according to IMB. Yes means at least one organization is actively working among this group; No means no known engagement.

Whether any congregations exist among this people group according to IMB.

Availability of Bible resources as assessed by IMB. Values: 'Available', 'Not Available', 'None'.

Availability of the Jesus Film as assessed by IMB. Values: 'Available', 'Not Available', 'None'.

Availability of Christian radio broadcasts as assessed by IMB. Values: 'Available', 'Not Available', 'None'.

Availability of gospel recordings as assessed by IMB. Values: 'Available', 'Not Available', 'None'.

Availability of audio Scripture resources as assessed by IMB. Values: 'Available', 'Not Available', 'None'.

Availability of Bible story resources as assessed by IMB. Values: 'Available', 'Not Available', 'None'.

Total count of available resource types (0–6) as assessed by IMB.

How much of the Bible has been translated into this people group's primary language. Levels range from no translation, to stories and selections, to New Testament only, to a complete Bible.

The date and time (or range) when the ministry activity occurred.

Total number of people who heard the gospel in a conversation.

Number of people who responded positively / ready to make a decision (green light).

Number of people interested but not yet ready (yellow light).

Number of people who responded negatively (red light).

Number of people with unknown response.

Number of people who were already following Christ.

Language used during the gospel conversation.

The date and time when the assessment was performed.

Timestamp when this result snapshot was captured.

Joshua Project Progress Scale (1-5), an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group. Derived from percent evangelical and percent Christian adherent. 1 = Unreached (<=2% evangelical, <=5% adherent), 2 = Minimally Reached (<=2% evangelical, >5% adherent), 3 = Superficially Reached (<=2% evangelical, >50% adherent), 4 = Partially Reached (>2% and <=10% evangelical), 5 = Significantly Reached (>10% evangelical). Level 1 subdivides into 1a (Frontier, <=0.1% both) and 1b (non-Frontier).

Human-readable label for the JP Progress Scale level of this people group in this country (e.g. 'Unreached', 'Significantly Reached'). Sourced from the Joshua Project API JPScalePC field.

Human-readable label for the JP Progress Scale level of this people group across all countries (e.g. 'Unreached', 'Partially Reached'). Sourced from the Joshua Project API JPScalePGAC field.

In-country population of the people group as reported by Joshua Project. Updated annually using UN country population growth rates.

Worldwide population of this people group across all countries, as reported by Joshua Project.

Ethnic or language identity name used for this people group across all countries. May differ from the country-specific name.

Number of countries where this people group is found, as reported by Joshua Project.

Primary spoken language name of the people group, as reported by Joshua Project.

Continent where this people group is located (e.g. 'Asia', 'Africa'), as reported by Joshua Project.

Geographic subregion within the continent where this people group is located, as reported by Joshua Project.

Country where this people group is found, as reported by Joshua Project.

Joshua Project Affinity Bloc — a broad ethnolinguistic grouping of related people clusters (e.g. 'Arab World', 'South Asian Peoples').

Joshua Project People Cluster — a mid-level grouping of closely related people groups within an affinity bloc (e.g. 'Bengali', 'Berber-Saharan').

URL to a representative photo of the people group on joshuaproject.net.

True if Joshua Project classifies this group as least-reached — Progress Scale 1 or 2, meaning less than 2% evangelical and less than 5% Christian adherent.

True if this is a Frontier People Group — less than 0.1% Christian of any kind, with no known active church planting.

True if the people group is located in the 10/40 Window, the region between 10 and 40 degrees north latitude spanning North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia.

Primary religion of the people group (e.g. 'Islam', 'Hinduism', 'Buddhism', 'Christianity'), as reported by Joshua Project.

Joshua Project RLG3 religion code — a numeric identifier for the primary religion of the people group.

Percentage of all Christians (all traditions — Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, etc.) in the people group population. Broader than evangelical percentage.

Percentage of Muslim population in the people group, as reported by Joshua Project.

Bible translation status for this people group. 0 = Unspecified, 1 = Translation Needed, 2 = Translation Started, 3 = Portions Available, 4 = New Testament Available, 5 = Complete Bible Available.

Year or year range of the most recent Bible translation for this people group (e.g. '2021', '1382-2020').

Year or year range of the most recent New Testament translation for this people group.

Jesus Film Project language or dub identifier for this people group's primary language.

True if gospel audio recordings exist in this people group's primary language.

True if gospel radio broadcasts are available in this people group's primary language.

Security or sensitivity level for ministry work among this people group. 1 = low, 2 = medium, 3 = high.

Date when the endorsement was granted.

Date when the endorsement expires, if applicable. Absence means no expiration.

Human-readable name or title of the resource.

URL where the resource can be accessed or downloaded.

The date the resource was first published or made available.

Progress on in-progress resources, as a decimal from 0.0 to 1.0. Most relevant for Scripture translations but applicable to any resource.

Target completion date for in-progress resources.

Human-readable name of the resource collection or series.

The date when this engagement claim was submitted.

Free-text description of the engagement — what the organization is doing, team size, approach, or any other context the claiming org wants to share.