What matters to the unreached?

I monitor trends in the 10/40 Window, set them in context of history, and try to estimate how much of it really impacts the unreached, and what it might mean to them and the spread of the Gospel and the Kingdom.
The Roundup—Fridays, a curated list of events among the unreached, plus resources, futuristics, and tech.
Premium Roundup—adds my weekly Commentary on current trends and estimates, and the Ideas & Images for 2050 to 2100.
Deomai—Every Sunday, a week’s worth of items to pray for driven by the headlines.

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Permanent

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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Blog Posts

Oct 24. I can do all things
Sep 23. Potatoes changing history
Sep 15. Dangers of list-making
Sep 10. House churches vs. Buildings: when a loss is counted as a loss
Aug 30. Not everyone should prioritize the unreached
This Year, All Indexed

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

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

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