Project One

Praying for the Unreached People Groups of Africa

Joshua Project is a research initiative seeking to highlight the ethnic people groups of the world with the least followers of Christ. Accurate, regularly updated ethnic people group information is critical for understanding and completing the Great Commission. Jesus said in Matthew 24:14 “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.” Jesus directly links His return to the fulfillment of the Great Commission. While no one knows the date or time of His return, we do know that this gospel of the kingdom must be preached to all the nations first. Revelation 5:9 and 7:9-10 show that there will be some from every tribe, tongue, nation and people before the Throne.

Joshua Project seeks to answer the questions that result from the Great Commission’s call to make disciples among every nation or people group:

• Who are the ethnic people groups of the world?
•Which people groups still need an initial church-planting movement in their midst?
•What ministry resources are available to help outreach among the least-reached?

In 2011 it’s a very sobering fact that despite the vast spread and use of technology, the growth of missionary groups, and the spread of the Gospel , that there are around 6500 unreached ethnic people groups with few if any followers of Christ.

Joshua Project gathers, integrates and shares people group information to encourage pioneer church-planting movements among every ethnic group and to facilitate effective coordination of mission agency efforts. Joshua Project compiles the work of numerous missions researchers to develop a list of all ethnic peoples that is as complete as possible.

Project One is a prayer initiative focused on the unreached people groups of Africa. Each month will have a focus scripture, and each day of 2012 we will be praying through the unreached people groups of Africa country by country.

We will present some information about the people groups, along with prayer points linking back to their page on Joshua Project.

There are many people groups with no picture, and little to no information about them. Although we will have little to go on, these are groups that we need to be lifting up to the Lord in prayer, that someone will come, someone will share the Gospel, the Good News. Pray for an outpouring of the Spirit. Pray that Jesus would be revealed to them through dreams and visions, and that they would have a hunger to know Him, and come into relationship with him.

One Continent, One Prayer, One Year.

Let the Nations be awakened! Let the earth hear the voice of the Lord!

We are committing to pray for the unreached people of Africa in 2012, and we are asking you to join us to help fulfill the Great Commission.

Pray for the salvation of the Unreached!

For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, (1 Peter 3:18)

For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation. (2 Corinthians 6:2)

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. (John 17:20-21)

For more information on Unreached People please visit the Joshua Project website.
Read our interview with Duane Frasier of Joshua Project in our feature Being the Domino: Joshua Project
Read through our Scripture Resource to know how you can Pray For The Nations
Read through our Scripture Resource to know how to Pray Specifically for the Unreached
Read about the Unreached on Desiring God’s website in their article Declare His Glory Among the Nations
Watch this video from David Platt called Unstoppable