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More than a billion people still have no access to the gospel. About a quarter of the world’s people groups have no church and no active Christian witness. They are lost, “without hope and without God” (Eph 2:12).

Their lostness is not a result of having rejected the good news of salvation in Christ. They have never heard the gospel, and there is currently no way for them to hear the gospel or see it lived out. They do not know any Christians or anyone who knows a Christian. There are simply no churches in their neighbourhoods or towns that speak their language. This is the case, for example, for tens of millions of Pashtun in Pakistan and Afghanistan, for most of the world’s seven million Tibetans, and for hundreds of millions of people from unreached Hindu groups in India.

The challenge of taking the gospel to these lost people who currently have no access to the gospel is huge - overwhelming even. But to ignore the lost is to ignore God’s heart, his love for the lost. No matter where he has placed us, or what ministry he has given us, we have a role in God’s mission. He has called us to make his love and power known everywhere so that people from every single tribe and language are brought into his family through Christ.