An Unreached People Group (UPG) is defined by the Joshua project as "a people group among which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize this people group without outside assistance". Reaching UPGs requires unique strategies, resources, and, most of all, willing workers to go out to some of the most remote places in the world.
Unreached People Groups Resources
Learn & Pray
International Day for the Unreached is a movement that unites churches, organizations, and individuals around the cause of reaching every unreached people group on earth with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Check out their free resources including a prayer guide, bulletin insert, videos, FAQ pages, and more!
Joshua Project is a research initiative seeking to highlight the ethnic people groups of the world with the fewest followers of Christ. Accurate, updated ethnic people group information is critical for understanding and completing the Great Commission. Joshua Project gathers, integrates, and shares people group information to encourage pioneer church-planting movements among every ethnic group and to facilitate effective coordination of mission agency efforts.
Beyond catalyzes Disciple Making Movements to transform Unreached People Groups. They launch apostolic teams to equip everyday men, women and children to disciple their own people directly, quickly and exponentially.
PeopleGroups.com is a database that provides reliable, relevant, and real-time information to help you engage unreached people groups around the world.
“How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!””
Trans World Radio (TWR) exists to reach the world for Jesus Christ by speaking fluently in more than 230 languages and dialects. TWR breaks down barriers of language and accessibility so users can download, stream and read abundant Christian media resources to grow in their daily walk with Christ.
Wycliffe Bible Translators exist to help people around the world translate the Bible into their own languages.
World Prayer Guides is a prayer and mobilization ministry to educate and inform the church about the Least Reached. They do this by the production and distribution of prayer guides. Their focus is on major world religions, countries/people groups, and issues pertaining to the Least Reached people in the world.
UPG North America knows that hundreds of significant unreached people group communities have been formed in North America over the last few decades through migration. You can discover which communities are most in need of gospel witness, participate in virtual prayerwalks through their neighborhoods and places of worship, and discover gospel resources in their languages. Be sure to explore the map to see where these groups are located and join a prayer walk near you!
GO & Serve
Anglican Frontier Missions (AFM) is a missionary society that sends missionaries to plant indigenous churches among the largest and least evangelized peoples in the world. Although 67 generations of Christians have lived and died since Jesus' resurrection, more than 7,000 ethno-linguistic people groups comprising 3 billion people are still unreached with the gospel. This Unseen 1/3rd of the world has little-to-no geographic and/or cultural access to the gospel.
DOOR International. Less than 2% of the world’s 70 million Deaf people know God. Add to that, 90% of them struggle to read so the written Bible makes no sense. DOOR exists to bring the Bible to the heart language of every Deaf person in the world.
Global Frontier Missions (GFM) is a movement of Christ-centered communities dedicated to mobilizing, training, and multiplying disciples and churches to meet the physical and spiritual needs of the least-reached people groups of the earth.
Pioneers empower gospel-driven Christians to go to the ends of the earth together in relentless pursuit of the unreached.
Team partners with churches in North America and throughout the world to send out workers who will work to see God worshipped by all peoples. They work holistically to see churches have a broad impact across societies and cultures, with initiatives in evangelism, education, health, anti-trafficking, community development, agriculture, disaster relief, and creation care. All over the world, you will find TEAM workers serving in businesses, orphanages, tribal groups, urban jungles, and dusty ranches.
Videos
This video highlights unreached people groups and explains the Greek term "ta ethne" and what a Biblical nation is. It also talks about the remaining people groups who have yet to hear the gospel and those that are considered unengaged.
The Deaf: An Unreached People Unlike Any Other by Chad Entinger.
Dr. David Garrison is Executive Director of Global Gates gives his plenary talk at the 2019 New Wineskins Conference and is part of the Better Together Global Mission Conference Series.
Find out more about how Deaf Opportunity OutReach (DOOR) International is working to engage, equip, and empower the Deaf worldwide with God's Word and training.
The Reverend Tad de Bordenave, retired Founder and Director of Anglican Frontier Missions, gives his plenary talk at the 2019 New Wineskins Conference and is part of the Better Together Global Mission Conference Series.
