This video highlights unreached people groups and explains the greek term ta ethne and what a biblical nation is. Unreached countries 23 countries with 1050% professing christians 35 countries with 110% christian including china and india 29 countries all within the 1040 window with less than 1% christian. The majority of these unreached groups lie within the 1040 window, which is a metaphorical window that looks over north africa, asia, and the middle east. Our primary focus is unengaged, unreached people groups. International project exists to initiate churchplanting movements through unreached people groups living outside thier homelands. There are approximately 2,000 unreached people groups in the 1040 window, and a number of these are the people of the middle east.
Pray for the entire people group pray the lord will give gaur rajputs a spiritual hunger, then satisfy that hunger. It is a missiological term used by evangelical christians. Canada was a country made up of reached and unreached people groups. Of the individuals in the 1040 window, 62 percent remain unreached or unengaged people groups. Significant effort has been made to identify those people groups without access to the gospel i.
A map of the progress of the gospel among all people groups. In 2006, gfm began traveling into the 1040 window where over 95% of the remaining unreached people groups live. Second, these are the least evangelized countries in the world. Unreached or leastreached people groups are sometimes referred to as the hidden peoples.
The 1040 window is a term that helps people visualize the general area of the analysis. The vast majority 85% of these least reached groups exist in the. This map shows the progress of the gospel among the mosaic of ethnic people groups around the world. Unreached people groups in africa and beyond lausanne. Diaspora unreached people groups international project. Pray for the entire people group pray the group will grow in others esteem for the importance of what they create. Mission frontiers 40 years of unreached peoples effort. That means its between 10 and 40 degrees north latitude of the equator. The 1040 window also contains the largest unreached peoples over one million in population. It points out that in addition to the geographical window of the 1040 people group, a geographical region that represents billions of lost muslims, hindus, and buddhist, there is now a new generational people group that is. The 1040 window is home to some of the largest unreached people groups in the world.
Please practice handwashing and social distancing, and check out our resources for adapting to these times. As god continues to lead his church to engage peoples not yet reached with the gospel, this map illustrates progress toward a multitude from every language, people, tribe and nation knowing and. About 2,000 groups are totally unreached with no known believers. How many unreached people groups are there in china. We go to many countries, some open for travel and some not, helping people and giving hope to one and all.
An estimate of the number of pioneer workers needed for initial church planting among unreached people groups by country. This is a place in the world between the 10 th and 40 th parallels it extends from west africa to japan. Most of us know the 1040 window, that geographic band between 10 and 40 degrees north latitude thats home to the largest unreached people groupsand the poorest and most spiritually impoverishedin the world. On the flipside, there are very few missionaries working among the remaining unreached people groups within the 1040 window.
Pray that these rajputs will understand the value of becoming part of gods royal family. Any ethnic or ethnolinguistic nation without enough christians to evangelize the rest of the nation is an unreached people group. Most of the people groups still unreached by the gospel live in places stretching across the maps of northern africa and asia. I have used this book for a year now and i find that it has. Christian missions strategist luis bush started calling this rectangular area or band. Your contribution will help fund oral bible storytelling, written translation of the old and new testaments, and audio recordings of scripture for more than 6 million unreached people in africa, asia and the americas who are still waiting for the bible in their language. The book, cdrom, bookcdrom combo pack, dvdrom, and wall map. Ninety percent of these unreached people groups live in what is called the 1040 window. The answer depends on how one defines a people group. Welldesigned maps make data easier to understand and enable us to quickly grasp global trends. Progress toward engaging unreached peoples description. According to, there are approximately 6,825 unreached people groups in the world today if you count every unreached people group once within each country in which they live, including the united states and canada. The 1040 window contains the most peoples unreached by.
The operating programs of mission to unreached peoples include bible schools, childrens ministries, church planting and evangelism, esl teaching, education and training, literature, medical, relief and development, youth ministries, and member care of missionary personnel. In christianity, an unreached people group refers to an ethnic group without an indigenous, selfpropagating christian church movement. The 1040 window also contains the largest unreached peoples over one million. A clear picture of the status of world evangelization and the location of unreached people groups is critical for good, strategic decisionmaking as we steward the resources god. Most of these groups are located in the 1040 window, the area of africa and asia from 10 degrees to 40 degrees latitude north of the equator. Third, the greatest numbers of unreached people groups and unreached cities are in the. He used that easytoremember name because it lies across africa and asia from 10 degrees latitude north of the.
Resources, database, articles, research, lists, statistics, videos, books, and mission organizations are all here. Center of world missions have identified as many as 10,000 cultural groups which could be considered unreached. This is where the frontiers are, and it is where god is. An estimate of the number of pioneer workers needed for initial church. Estimates are calculated only for unreached people groups and are based on ratio of 1 worker for every 50,000 individuals living in an unreached people group by country. A large percent of the unreached people groups are found in this window. Probably many of our listeners have heard of the 1040 window. This is the vast area extending from 10 degrees to 40 degrees above the equator. In addition, the 1040 window contains the overwhelming majority of the worlds least evangelized megacities that is those with a population of more. Join us in impacting unreached people groups around the world. Christians can learn about missions, the status of world evangelization, indigenous missionaries aka national, native, local, home missionaries, radio and internet ministry, supporting and partnering to reach the 1040 window and the world with the gospel. Christians have a special name for people who live in the 1040 window and dont know about jesus. After sharing the state of the world with shortterm mission teams for so many years, it was time to go out into the harvest field and do something about it ourselves.
The main message of this map is to show people visually that the nations are here. The 1040 window is a helpful model to illustrate where the majority of unreached people groups remain. Through migration, people who previously had no access to the gospel are living among us, giving us an. Recently world magazine ran a very interesting and important article entitled, the other unreached people group. The 1040 window is a term coined by christian missionary strategist and partners. The hope in creating this map is that you will see what people from 10 40 window nations are around you and that you will build christdemonstrating relationships with them. In ad 100 there were 12 unreached people groups for every congregation of believers. All maps except international students are property of the traveling team, created by. First, from a historical and biblical perspective this is the region where god called his people to begin the faith journey with him there are approximately 17 million jews in the 1040 window. A lot has been written and many strategies have been designed as to how the upgs are to be reached.
Over 1,000 unreached people groups are not in the 1040 window, these total. Pray for peace among this community and that they will begin to have success in selling their products. Top 20 unreached people groups the christian liberal. It is in this window that most of the unreached people groups of the world live. We need to pray for the people in the 1040 window for these reasons. The goal is to identify unreached groups, explain some of the. In addition, over 90% of the worlds most povertystricken people live in the 1040 window, and face the most opposition through rampant diseases like.
It also talk about the remaining people groups who have yet to hear the gospel and those that are considered unengaged. Theres a good chance youve actually heard of the 1040 window. Most of the unreached people of our world live in a rectangularshaped window. People desiring to fulfill the great commission need to know where these unreached groups of people are, so that our efforts in completing the task will not just be busy but productive. The book proceeds through regions of the world and gives information on the unreachd people groups that live in these regions. A heartgripping statistic stands out from this number. It is a belt that extends from west africa across asia, between the 10th and 40th latitudes north. We exist to be the point of contact for help and hope in the 1040 window. Map of unreached places and explanation of the 1040 window a conept which missiologists use to explain where most of the people groups still unreached by. Nonwestern writers and organizations also refer to the 10 40 window. This means the 1040 window holds over 3 billion men, women, and children who have never heard the gospel. The pictures will help you feel compassion for these peoples. These groups are defined by ethnic or sociological traits to be people so different from the cultural traditions of any existing church that missions rather than evangelism strategies are. The great imbalance of missions is the fact that most missionaries go to or are sent to reached areas of the earthregions where the church already exists and the name of jesus is known.
To see how this compares to the rest of the world, click the magnifying glass at the top of the map. The unreached people groups upgs concept is very popular among evangelicals, especially those who take the great commission very seriously. I know that i first heard about the 1040 window when i was preparing to go on one of my first mission trips when i was 15 yearsold. Unreached peoples and great commission maps and charts. Powerful new ideas stimulated the imagination of believers, catalyzed their collective energies and birthed the modern frontier mission movement. This means approximately 61% of the individuals in the 1040 window live in an unreached people group. That means that unreached people groups account for approximately 40% of all people groups throughout the world. A map is one tool researchers use to help visualize complex information.
Aug, 20 the 1040 window contains the most peoples unreached by the gospel. The 10 40 window is a rectangular window between 10 degrees north and 40 degrees north latitude. Pray for a holy spirit led humility for all rajput communities to fall at the feet of the king of kings. Now there is 1 unreached people group for every congregations. Although i will make references to some of these writings and strategies, my main desire is to highlight the current implications of. Today, missions organizations have extended this window to include nearby countries such as indonesia which also have a very high concentration of unreached people groups.
The data on the map isnt accuratebut it doesnt need to be. The progress level is calculated and mapped for each people group using the joshua project progress scale. Geographically, where are these unreached people groups located. The work we are commemorating in this issue 19762016 did not occur in a vacuum, but was predicated by a paradigm shift in mission thinking. We started in morocco, and then went on to india and thailand. The vast majority of these unreached people live in an area of the world nicknamed the 1040 window. Chinasource how many unreached peoples are there in china. The 1040 window joshua project unreached peoples of. Half a million indian communities still lack any witnessing body of believers, meaning four out of five indians will go their entire lives without knowing a single christian.
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