A Frontier People Group (FPG) is:
Joshua Project approximates FPGs as:
In Frontier People Groups, pioneer workers are generally limited to starting with non-believers. In other UPGs it is often possible to partner with same-culture believers.
How many Frontier People Groups are there?Joshua Project data shows 4,988 Frontier People Groups with total population 2,032,201,000. One fourth of the world lives in these FPGs and have almost no chance of hearing about Jesus from someone in their own people group. About HALF the population of all FPGs live in just 37 groups, each over ten million in population.
How neglected are Frontier People Groups?The vast majority of mission prayer, giving and laborers focuses on strengthening Christians where Christians are already present. Only a very small portion of mission prayer and resources go to Unreached People Groups (UPGs) at all, and only a tiny fraction of this goes to Frontier Unreached People Groups (FPGs). Very few mission agencies and churches send even 1% of their missionaries to Frontier Peoples.
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Prayer guide for the largest Frontier People groups without a Gospel movement
Day 1: Hausa in Niger
Day 2: Hausa in Nigeria
Day 3: Arab Moroccan in Morocco
Day 4: Yemeni in Yemen
Day 5: Azerbaijani in Iran
Day 6: Turk in Turkey
Day 7: Uzbek in Uzbekistan
Day 8: Hui in China
Day 9: Uyghur in China
Day 10: Ansari in India
Day 11: Arain in Pakistan
Day 12: Bania in India
Day 13: Brahmin in India
Day 14: Dhobi in India
Day 15: Jat in India
Day 16: Jat in Pakistan
Day 17: Kapu in India
Day 18: Kumhar in India
Day 19: Kunbi in India
Day 20: Kurmi in India
Day 21: Mahratta in India
Day 22: Nai in India
Day 23: Pashtun in India
Day 24: Pashtun in Pakistan
Day 25: Rajput in India
Day 26: Rajput in Pakistan
Day 27: Shaikh in Bangladesh
Day 28: Shaikh in India
Day 29: Shaikh in Pakistan
Day 30: Teil in India
Day 31: Yadav in India
Introduce children to Frontier People Groups
Day 1: Afghan Tajik
Day 2: Algerian Tuareg
Day 3: Shaikh
Day 4: Hui
Day 5: Kazakh
Day 6: Mongol
Day 7: Uyghur
Day 8: Ansari
Day 9: Bania
Day 10: Brahmin
Day 11: Dhobi
Day 12: Jat
Day 13: Kapu
Day 14: Kumhar
Day 15: Kunbi
Day 16: Mahratta
Day 17: Nai
Day 18: Rajput
Day 19: Teli
Day 20: Yadav
Day 21: Malay
Day 22: Moroccan
Day 23: Rakhine
Day 24: Fulani
Day 25: Arain
Day 26: Pashtun
Day 27: Wolof
Day 28: Turk
Day 29: Uzbek
Day 30: Arab Northern Yemeni
Day 31: Chechen