For How Long Will They Be Lost?

“Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.” — Kurt von Schleicher

The Lost Have Always Been the Lord’s Pursuit

• Total People Groups: ~17,400

• Unreached Groups: ~7,400 (≈42%)

• Population within Unreached Groups: ~3.4 billion souls 

Definition of ‘Unreached’:

• Less than 2% Christ-followers

• Less than 5% professing Christians

That’s 3.4 billion people—still without access to the Gospel of the Kingdom. 

Where We’ve Stayed Behind 

Despite our spiritual vocabulary and global connectivity, the data speaks loudly: we are lagging in obedience to the Great Commission.

Finances

• Global Christian income: ~$63 trillion

• Used for personal interests: 98%

• Sent to foreign missions: 0.1% 

We are financing our comfort more than the Kingdom. We’ve mastered stewardship of personal convenience—while neglecting eternal commissions. 

Church Budgets

• Domestic projects: 87%

• Regular missions: 12%

• Frontier missions: 1%

The unreached remain underfunded, while the reached are overserved. We’ve invested in buildings, programs, and routine ministry—yet we’ve left the unreached with crumbs. 

Missionary Distribution

• 90% serve among reached groups

• Only 10% serve among the least reached

We have sent workers to places where churches already exist—but neglected those with no access to the Gospel. We’ve flooded fields that already bear fruit—while ignoring barren lands starving for light. 

Bible Access

• Estimated spoken languages worldwide: ~7,000

• Languages with a full Bible translation: ~530

• Thousands still await Scripture in their own tongue 

The English Bible has over 500 versions. Many tribes still have none. Many can read the Bible in ten translations. Others can’t read it in one. The Gospel is global—but our distribution is not. 

Christian Literature: A Gospel Drift

Topic focus in Christian publishing:

• Prosperity, success, comfort: 97%

• Global missions, unreached peoples: barely 3%

We’ve published volumes on how to win at life—but scarcely whispered about those still waiting for eternal life. Our shelves echo self-help more than salvation. We’ve mastered motivation—but forgotten the mission. We’ve taught ourselves how to prosper—but not how to reach the perishing.

(Source: Status of Global Mission, International Bulletin of Missionary Research)

The Call Cannot Be Ignored

“Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. How shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?” — Romans 10:13–14

They won’t believe until they hear. They won’t hear until someone speaks. They won’t be found until someone goes. The Church must go. We must go. The unreached are not unreachable—they’re waiting. The gospel won’t move unless the Church moves.