Missionaries generally want to share the breakthroughs and powerful testimonies with you. To be clear, amazing things are happening in the world, including pockets of revival.

But I feel led to share some of the dark realities of global missions with you. Eugene Bach shared something similar in his recent, incredibly moving podcast from Back To Jerusalem, Episode 162: A Crisis In The Church—What You Are Not Being Told. As you listen, I’m sure you will be blown away with the hard reality of unreached and unengaged people groups.

This may not be the news you were hoping to hear, but truth bombs propel us to compassion. We are falling short in reaching the remaining unreached people groups. Let’s spell it out a little bit more.

First, watch this video: State of the World: The Task Remaining. This post is adapted from globalfrontiermissions.org 

  • World’s population: 7 billion
  • 33% are Christian (World C)
  • 38% have access but have chosen not to follow Jesus (World B)
  • 29% have never heard of Jesus and have no access to the Gospel (World A). They have no Bibles, no churches, and no believers nearby.

What?! It’s the 21st century, and they still haven’t heard the Gospel message? Yes. Keep learning…

Only 1 out of every 1,800 Christians decide to serve as a cross-cultural missionary. Total cross-cultural missionary task force: 400,000.

  • 72% of these missionaries are from World C—those who already claim a Christian heritage
  • 25% are sent to World B—where there is already access to the Gospel.
  • 3% are sent to World A—to the unreached world, 29% of the world’s population!

These numbers do not match. Or, at the very least, they reveal our lack of concern and priority for those who have never heard of Jesus before.

Something has to change. We need a new catalyst, a new paradigm, a radical compassion to spark in our hearts for the unreached world

After watching this video and listening to this podcast, let me share a helpful first step for changing these realities. I encourage you to find what God is doing and join Him there. Remember those who have no voice and have never heard the Gospel. Start with Within Reach Global. Read through recent blogs and see that God is at work among the least reached. Then join us and make a difference together.

Don’t let the “out of sight, out of mind” syndrome take over. God sees these precious ones and loves them immensely. Will you allow your heart to be broken by the things that break God's heart and bring the Gospel message to those who have never heard it before?