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.
More.
Permanent
Longer Essays
Jan 01. How long to reach the goal?Sep 01. Over 1% of the World: A Macroanalysis of 1,967 Movements
Apr 12. Global Movement Dashboard
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Blog Posts
Jul 24. ChurchJul 23. Declining church membership in the USA
Jul 22. Bangladesh student protests
Jul 22. Free will: means vs ends
May 07. From
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
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
GAP for FTT, 2020: Onsite Research and Simple Planning (Video).
GAP for FTT, 2020: Movement Data - an In-depth Update (Video)
Mission Frontiers, 2020: 1% of the world: 1,369 movements to Christ
Mission Frontiers, 2014: The Brutal Facts
Mission Frontiers, 2006: What it takes: more than churches
Contact Me. Email to justinlong@gmail.com or justin@beyond.org. Donate to our work via Beyond.