Frontier Unreached Peoples
Overview
Who are Frontier Unreached People Groups?
A Frontier People Group (FPG) is:
- an Unreached People Group (UPG)
- with virtually no followers of Jesus and
- no known movements to Jesus,
- still needing pioneer cross-cultural workers.
Joshua Project approximates FPGs (indicated with ☀︎) as:
- 0.1% or fewer Christian Adherents and
- no confirmed, sustained movement.
In Frontier People Groups, pioneer workers are generally limited to starting with non-believers. 60% of Unreached People Groups are still Frontier People Groups. In the other 40% of Unreached Groups it is often possible to partner with same-culture believers.
How many Frontier People Groups are there?
Joshua Project data shows 4,833 Frontier People Groups with total population 2,026,120,000. One fourth of the world lives in these FPGs and have almost no chance of hearing about Jesus from someone in their own people group. About HALF the population of all FPGs live in just 35 groups, each over ten million in population.
How neglected are Frontier People Groups?
The vast majority of mission prayer, giving and laborers focuses on strengthening Christians where Christians are already present. Only a very small portion of mission prayer and resources go to Unreached People Groups (UPGs) at all, and only a tiny fraction of this goes to Frontier Unreached People Groups (FPGs). Very few mission agencies and churches send even 1% of their missionaries to Frontier Peoples.
Watch the video below for an easily explained animated version.
Used with permission from Joshua Project, 2024. See more resources and videos at Joshuaproject.net/frontier#videos.
