Every year the American church sends 11,803 short-term missionaries overseas.
We spend $1.5 billion on international missions.
We engage 1,915 unreached people groups around the world.
1.6 million people heard the gospel. 145,000 decided to follow Christ. 68,628 were baptized. 2,409 new churches were planted. (IMB Annual Report 2024)
111 unreached people groups live in American cities.
4.26 million unreached Muslims. 3.17 million unreached Hindus.
32 groups with 0.0% evangelical presence.
Zero. Known. Believers.
The nations didn’t wait for us to go. They came.
Each city is a complete case study. The people, the places, the gap, the data.
Every pin from a source that permits it.
111 groups with fewer than 2% evangelical Christians. Sorted by US population. Click a row to see them on the map.
| Name | Population | Religion | Language | Location | % Evangelical | JP Scale |
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Ethnic churches in the U.S., counted. Some communities have hundreds. Others have zero.
The gap is not distance. It is intention.
Missions starts with lunch.
You don’t need a plane ticket. You don’t need language training. You don’t need a missions budget. You need a car, an appetite, and a willingness to say hello.
There are 11,167 ethnic restaurants in this dataset. Every one of them is a doorway into a community that may have never been invited into an American home. The owner has a name. The cook has a story. The family at the next table has been praying to a god who hasn’t answered.
Pick a metro above. Filter to restaurants. Find the nearest one from an unreached community. Go this week. Order something you can’t pronounce. Sit at the counter. Come back next Saturday. Learn the owner’s name. That’s how it starts.
Find an ethnic restaurant near you. Order something you can’t pronounce. Talk to the person behind the counter. Come back next week. Learn their name.
Pick one unreached group from the table. Learn their name, their language, their religion. Pray for them by name.
Invite them to your home for a meal. Introduce them to your family. The gospel travels on relationships.
The nations didn’t wait. They opened a restaurant on your street.