Maps
Progress towards UUPG engagement
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 people groups that remain unreached and unengaged.
Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC)
The Global Status of Evangelical Christianity (GSEC) map visualizes people groups based on:
• percentage of evangelicals
• access to evangelical resources
• recent church planting activity
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’s Global Research Department has identified eight primary affinity groups. The eighth affinity group uniquely targets the world’s culturally Deaf peoples.
Unengaged Unreached People Groups (UUPGs)
When both terms, Unengaged and Unreached, apply to people groups (called UUPGs), they are tracked in a separate list to highlight the overwhelming need to see disciples made and churches started among them. Sometimes lists of UUPGs published by various organizations differ. This is to be expected, as this term is man-defined, and organizations may view different activities within the missionary task as engagement. IMB has chosen not to count a group as engaged until there are workers on the ground focused on establishing self-sustaining churches.
Explore the People Groups of the World
Map and discover people groups and the status of the gospel among them. Filter, explore, and even download information.