Beginning in 1974 Dr. Ralph Winter began advocating for the peoples without access to the gospel - then called "Hidden Peoples", now referred typically to unreached peoples.
There is a growing wealth of descriptive terms that help us advocate for the work of the gospel to all peoples, and that help our sending efforts focus to accomplish this goal.
Unengaged Unreached People Groups is a helpful modifier in that these UUPGs have no (known) outside Christian witness among them.
Another one recently released is
Frontier Unreached People groups. This modifier helps us to focus on those on the extreme end of unreached. FUPGs are peoples with 0.1% or less Christian adherents and no known gospel movement. There are currently 4,751 of these peoples with the least access to the gospel that make up 1.8 billion people (24% of global population). Further analysis available from IJFM.
May these terms draw our hearts to God's redemptive plan for all nations as emphasized in
scripture, and then take action to pray, mobilize, fund, welcome and send so that we can be faithful to the every Christian Great Commission calling.
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