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.

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Explainers

North Korea: a government that will not readily fall: a 2016 forecast set against the decade since, and what it means for the Church.

The Sahel: a region changing hands: how armed groups stopped raiding and started governing, and where the Church stands.

Longer Essays

Feb 27. Peak Islam

Sep 26. Gospel Gap: Uttar Pradesh

Sep 12. Gospel Gap: Algiers

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Q&A

Weekly Questions & Answers: Answers to reader questions on global trends and mission.

Presentations

DMM Dashboard: December 2022

Resources

Prayer Guides: for unreached peoples and places.
Charts, Tables, Resources I frequently reference
Tools I use, updated for 2025.
Recommended Reads for mission and movements.
Biographies of notable missionaries.
Books I have recently read: 2026, 2023, 2022, 2021.

Elsewhere

Dallas Theological Seminary's WEC Week, May 2026: Global Trends and Gospel Gaps (video)

Mission Frontiers, July/August 2025: Misconceptions from oversimplifying non-Western movements

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

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

CMIW, October 2022: More than 1%.

Beyond, 2022: Global Movement Dashboard

Mission Frontiers, 2021: Why rapid growth declines

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