Unreached and Untold

So last night at my church we had this really awesome Mission's day service and a representative from the International Mission Board(IMB) came and spoke to us about unreached people groups around the world but primarily in Central Asia. Now you probably know by now that I want to be a missionary so of course I was all into this and soaked up every word this man said. I was startled by the statistics. If you don't know what qualifies groups of people as unreached I got the definition for you. An unreached people group is defined as a people group in which there is no indigenous community of believing Christians with adequate numbers and resources to evangelize this peolpe group. I got this definiton at this really cool website called joshuaproject.net. It's an awesome site with facts on every people group in the world and where they stand when it comes to Christianity. Well on that same website I researched the people of Central Asia and I was stunned at the results. It turns out that 96.6% of the population there is unreached! That is way too large of an amount. I felt especially convicted when I read the Great Commission at the end of Matthew 28. We are told straight up "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." v. 19. Those numbers don't show us doing that. We need to pray really hard over the people of Central Asia. Alot of the reason so many people there are lost is because there is no way to get the gospel to them. If you're interested in learning about more unreached people groups check out joshuaproject.net:)