Progress Toward Engaging Unreached Peoples
God continues to lead His church to engage peoples not yet reached with the Gospel. This map visualizes progress toward a multitude from every nation, tribe, people and language knowing and worshipping our Lord Jesus Christ. Rejoice in how the Gospel has spread among many peoples and pray for the 3,171 people groups that remain unreached and unengaged.
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Progress Map – 25″ x 42″
Progress Presentation
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity
The Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC) map visualizes people groups based on:
• percentage of evangelicals;
• access to evangelical resources;
• recent church planting activity.
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Understanding Affinity Groups
In a world with dissolving borders, global “affinity groups”—large groupings of related peoples that share similar origins, languages and cultures—act as a lens through which missionaries view lostness and focus strategy to share the gospel. Focusing strategy through affinity groups gives missionaries a more complete picture of the people they are working to reach as well as the freedom to pursue the lost regardless of their location. IMB has identified eight primary affinity groups. A ninth affinity group uniquely targets the world’s culturally Deaf peoples.
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Unengaged Unreached People Groups
A people group is unreached when less than 2 percent of its population is evangelical Christian. A people group is unengaged when no evangelical church planting strategy is being implemented among them.
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