Watching the Edges of the Harvest

A missionary research desk tracking global trends, movement insights, and prayer signals for the unreached.

I’m a missionary researcher serving with Beyond. Each week I publish the Weekly Roundup—a curated digest of 100+ links on global trends affecting access to the gospel. I also field research questions, curate practical tools, and support mission movements with strategic insight and prayer.

The Roundup—Fridays, a curated list of events among the unreached, plus resources, futuristics, and tech.

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Deomai—Every Sunday, a week’s worth of items to pray for driven by the headlines.

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Longer Essays

Oct 01. Survey of Reflections on Lausanne
Jan 01. How long to reach the goal?
Sep 01. Over 1% of the World: A Macroanalysis of 1,967 Movements
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Presentations

DMM Dashboard: December 2022

Resources

Prayer Guides: for unreached peoples and places.
Charts, Tables, Resources I frequently reference
Tools I use, updated for 2024.
Recommended Reads for mission and movements.
Biographies of notable missionaries.
Books I have recently read: 2021, 2022, 2023.

Elsewhere

Mission Frontiers, January 2025: The importance and complications of polycentric mission

Cynthia Anderson's Dare to Multiply podcast, 2024: Global trends

EMQ, October 2023: Reporting challenges for movements in a world of misinformation and persecution.

Mission Frontiers, January 2023: How long to reach the goal?

CMIW, October 2022: More than 1%.

Beyond, 2022: Global Movement Dashboard: 1,850 DMMs, 99.9 million believers

Mission Frontiers, 2021: Why rapid growth declines as movements grow in size

About Me. I’m a missionary researcher with Beyond, serving movements and missionaries across the 10/40 Window. I’ve worked in missions for 30+ years, tracking trends, fielding questions, and praying through patterns. This site is where I share what I’m learning.

Contact Me. Email to justin@justinlong.org or justin@beyond.org. Donate to our work via Beyond.