"Unreached", "Unengaged", and  "Engaged" -  the Differences Have Eternal Consequences for Millions

Engaged

If any team, whether part of Frontiers or not, is living and working to share Jesus’ message with a Muslim people group, they are engaged.

Questions that Frontiers asks before determining that a Muslim people group has been engaged include:

• Is the message being communicated in the local language?
• Are Muslims able to receive this message in ways that are appropriate to their culture?
• Is the team’s goal to establish a reproducible group of believers?

Unengaged

In just one region of South Asia, nearly one hundred million Muslims are now living without a witness who is willing to share with them about Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection. They are among the unengaged in several pocket regions of Asia and Africa.

There are hundreds of millions of Muslims in the world that have yet to be touched by the Gospel of Christ. Frontiers wants to change this by going where no one has before.

Here are a few possible reasons why no one is yet there:

• Hot temperatures and history of war.
• People groups perceived as more difficult.
• Governments want neither outside attention or interaction with groups.
• Spiritual forces of darkness combined with lack of prayer.

There are currently almost 210 unengaged Muslim people groups, and 50 of them are the primary focus of our prayers and resources. To learn more about the Unengaged, click here.

To purchase copies of Called to Pray, a prayer guide on behalf of 50 unengaged Muslim people groups, please visit our Store.

Unreached

This term, “unreached,” has been adopted by so many people to categorize so many groups that it’s in danger of becoming meaningless. By some definitions, “unreached” describes anyone who has not heard or believed in the good news of Jesus, whether they are living in the U.S. or elsewhere. But Frontiers uses the term differently – to describe people groups in which all of the following are true:

• Over 95% of the population has not yet believed nor heard about Jesus.
• If believers are present, they are unable or unwilling to provide a visible, vocal witness to the unreached group in their midst.
• Frontiers teams and/or others may be present among the unreached, but their work is far from over.