🇧🇩🌏 Dhaka, Bangladesh — No one is trying to reach them. ✝️🕊️
They are the Never Reached. 💔🙏
🌍⏳ The nations in the 10/40 Window. 🔍✝️🔥
⏳🌄 A Place Time Forgot… and the Church Often Overlooks 🕯️💔
Shining a light where the Gospel has never gone before
Imagine a land where:
There are no Bibles to read.
No Christians to talk to.
No churches to attend.
No preachers to hear.
No Christian broadcasts on radio or TV.
Not even a single missionary in sight.
No one is trying to reach them.
They are the Never Reached.
This isn't the setting for a fictional nightmare—it's the harsh reality facing over 3.2 billion people on Earth, right now.
Their spiritual darkness is not by choice—it’s by circumstance. They’ve simply never heard.
This land has a name: The 10/40 Window.
It’s a rectangular region located between 10 and 40 degrees north latitude, encompassing parts of North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. It’s also known as the "Resistant Belt."
Here are the sobering facts:
Over 3.2 billion people live in unreached people groups (UPGs), the vast majority within the 10/40 Window.
There are over 7,400 UPGs worldwide—groups where fewer than 2% are evangelical Christians.
This region is home to the majority of the world’s Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and those who identify as non-religious.
Though the Window covers just one-third of the world’s land area, nearly two-thirds of the world’s population lives there.
80% of the poorest people on earth live here, surviving on less than a few hundred dollars per year.
Most have no access to a Bible, Christian radio, church, or believer.
In this massive harvest field, people are born, live, and die without ever hearing the name of Jesus.
No missionary.
No church.
No gospel broadcast.
No Scripture in their language.
How will they ever believe—if they’ve never even heard?
Their lives pass in silence.
No voice telling them about Jesus.
No cross in sight.
No church bell.
No preacher's voice.
Just the hush of spiritual death.
Imagine a mother in a remote Himalayan village. She’s never heard the name Jesus. Not once. She raises her children, lights incense to stone idols, and prays to gods that cannot save.
Or a young man in North Africa—faithful in daily prayers to Allah, unaware that the true Son of God came, died, and rose again to redeem him. He doesn’t reject the Gospel… because he’s never heard it.
This isn’t just a tragedy—it’s an emergency.
📖 "How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? "
That verse echoes like a divine cry through the 10/40 Window.
They cannot call.
They cannot believe.
They cannot hear—unless someone goes.
🪑📖 Look at that pulpit. It stands silent and empty. 🚪😔
There’s no one to preach. No missionary in sight. Not even a single Christian nearby. ✝️🌏
This is the reality for most people in the 10/40 Window. 🙏💡
How will they know about Jesus… if no one tells them? 📢🕊️
📖🙏 Here’s a Prayer-Filled Checklist for Those Feeling the Call 🕊️🗺️
🙏 Pray for wisdom, guidance, and an open heart.
🌍 Study the culture, customs, and languages of unreached people groups.
🤝 Connect with missionaries or missions organizations already working in the region.
🧭 Create a plan that is both respectful and culturally sensitive.
📖 Discover creative ways to share the Word—whether in oral form, through apps, or digital Scripture access.
❤️ Build trust and relationships; meet physical needs and demonstrate Christ’s love.
🛡️ Prepare to face spiritual warfare, hardship, and potential persecution—trust in God's strength.
📚 Prioritize discipleship and train local believers to share the Gospel themselves.
📬 Stay connected with your church, mentors, and prayer partners back home.
✝️ Trust in the Lord fully—and lean not on your own understanding.
📖 “How then will they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in Him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?”
📦 📖 ✝️ Bibles (translated, smuggled, digital, and hidden in my heart), Bible dictionary, concordance
🛂 📱 🔌 Passport, phone, charger, headphones
💻 🔌 📖 Laptop, voltage converter, language phrasebook
📓 📜 Journal (that might just become a testimony)
🩹 💧 ✝️ First aid kit, Lifestraw, water filter (and Living Water)
☀️ 🔌Solar charger (for devices and maybe my soul)
👕 🛡️ Lightweight clothes, heavy armor of God
🌐 🤝 Cross-cultural humility
🙏 📱 Prayer partners on speed dial
👟 ➡️ Willing feet
⚓ 🙏 Unshakable faith
❤️ ➡️ 🌐 Love that breaks through language barriers
🙏 🛑 Trust—for when the GPS stops working
💬 ✝️ A message worth dying for
🎒 🧳 [All the other items]
❓ 📖 A spirit of curiosity and openness to learning
"Have confidence in God's plan."
"Believe and achieve."
"I can do all things through Christ." — Philippians 4:13
"Whatever it takes!"
This isn’t just a good idea—it’s a divine calling.
1️⃣✝️ Christ Commands It 📖👑
📖 “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations…”
Jesus didn’t offer a suggestion—He gave a mandate. Our obedience shows our love for Him.
2️⃣⏰ The Task Is Urgent 🌍💔
📖 “Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest.”
Every moment we delay, someone dies without Christ. The time is now.
3️⃣❤️ The Gospel Transforms Lives ✝️🕊️
📖 “He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives…”
The Gospel is not just good news—it’s life-changing news.
4️⃣⚡ It Is the Power of God for Salvation 📖🔥
📖 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes…”
This message alone carries the power to rescue souls from death and hell.
🙌🌱 Faith Flourishes in Secret in the Underground Church 🔒✝️🕊️
📖🌍 Answering the Call: Missionaries bring the Good News to the unreached. ✝️🔥
Consider these stark realities:
There are 7.75 billion people living in the world today.
3.23 billion are considered unreached.
An Unreached People Group (UPG) is a people group among which less than 2% are evangelical Christians.
Over 7,000 UPGs exist today—that’s 41% of the world’s population.
Most are in the 10/40 Window—with little or no access to the Gospel.
If you sense God stirring your heart, here are a few trusted Protestant evangelical mission-sending organizations where you can begin your journey of faith and obedience:
1. Assemblies of God World Missions (AGWM)
🌍 https://www.agwm.org
AGWM exists to establish the Church among all peoples everywhere, by reaching, planting, training, and serving. With over 2,500 missionaries in 150+ nations, AGWM serves to fulfill the Great Commission through evangelism, church planting, theological education, and compassion ministries.
2. Youth With A Mission (YWAM)
🌍 https://www.ywam.org
YWAM is a global movement of Christians from many cultures, age groups, and Christian traditions, committed to knowing God and making Him known. With a focus on training and outreach, they offer Discipleship Training Schools (DTS) and opportunities for long- and short-term missions.
3. Pioneers
🌍 https://www.pioneers.org
Pioneers mobilizes teams to glorify God among unreached peoples by initiating church-planting movements in partnership with local believers. They emphasize creativity, contextualization, and sustainable mission work.
4. TEAM (The Evangelical Alliance Mission)
🌍 https://www.team.org
TEAM partners with local churches to send missionaries who will plant churches, train leaders, and holistically serve communities around the world. They focus on long-term discipleship and equipping national believers.
5. SEND International
🌍 https://www.send.org
SEND is an interdenominational, evangelical mission agency committed to mobilizing God’s people and engaging the unreached through church planting and leadership development, especially in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Heavenly Father,
Our hearts are stirred by the great need and overwhelming numbers of those who have never heard Your Name. You see them—the unreached in villages, cities, mountains, deserts, and islands. You know every face, every name, every heartbeat.
Lord of the harvest, send out laborers into Your fields. Awaken in us a holy urgency to pray, to give, to go, and to speak boldly the Good News of Jesus Christ. Break our hearts for what breaks Yours.
Equip us, O God, with courage, compassion, and unwavering faith. May we be faithful to Your call, obedient to Your Word, and fueled by the power of the Holy Spirit. Use us to shine Your light into the darkest places, that the NEVER REACHED might one day lift their voices in praise to You.
In Jesus' powerful and saving Name, we pray,
Amen.