Valley Baptist faced the initial challenge of choosing from among more than 3,000 unengaged, unreached people groups (UUPGs) in the world. UUPGs are people groups that have no continual access to the Gospel through any evangelical church planting efforts (unengaged) and those in which less than 2 percent of its population is evangelical Christian (unreached).
Church members researched people groups via gettingthere.imbresources.org an IMB website that charts UUPGs and their locations using dots on a map.
"And the first thing that struck me was how many were clustered in southern Mexico," co-pastor Phil Neighbors recalls. "I mean, I was thinking that we were going to be going to some far-flung corner of the world. I couldn't believe that right here in our hemisphere there was this huge cluster of unreached people groups." Keep reading
What is your denomination or network doing to help churches identify unengaged, unreached people groups to become the focus of their gospel ministry? How could it do more?
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