How to Pray for Missions: Unreached People Groups and Unreached Places

WME is part of the 2414 Coalition, a network that is focused on seeing the Gospel reach all Unreached People Groups and Unreached Places with Disciple Making Movement and Church Planting Movement strategy by December 31, 2025.  One thing of which we are convinced is that it will take the miraculous power of God to see this take place.  But with the power of God and with the obedience of God's people, we believe this is a very realistic goal.

But because it is God's work, our first priority is prayer.  So the question we ask in this blog is "How do we pray for Unreached People Groups and Unreached Places".  In the next blog, I will focus on how to select and focus on a particular group or region.  But for now, let's assume that you have a people group or region of the world on which you are focused.  Here is a way to pray for your Unreached People Group or Place.

Look in your Bible at Luke 10.  This chapter is a key chapter for those who are using DMM/CPM strategy.  Although it is not ONLY centered with this passage, Luke 10 is one of the critical places in scripture from which we draw the principles of our disciple making plans. But you can also use it as a prayer focus on a place or group.

Luke 10:1-12 New International Version (NIV)

Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-Two

10 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two[a] others and sent them two by twoahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go. 2 He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field. 3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves. 4 Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.
5 “When you enter a house, first say, ‘Peace to this house.’ 6 If someone who promotes peace is there, your peace will rest on them; if not, it will return to you.7 Stay there, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.


8 “When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is offered to you. 9 Heal the sick who are there and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’10 But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say,11 ‘Even the dust of your town we wipe from our feet as a warning to you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God has come near.’ 12 I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
 From this passage (and other CPM principles) pray for these 7 things in the People Group or Region of your focus:

1) Pray for the Holy Spirit to Prepare the Ground, the Hearts of People in the Target Group/Region

2) Pray for Workers/ Missionaries/ Disciple Makers to be sent to them

3) Pray for Persons of Peace to be found among the group. Persons of Peace are people open to spiritual things and hungry for spiritual reality who will open their homes and networks for relationships and Bible study.

4)  Pray for Miracles of Healing and Deliverance.

5)  Pray for Discovery Bible Study Groups to begin and to multiply.

6)  Pray for People to be Born Again, Baptized and Gathered in New Churches.

7)  Pray for New Leaders to Emerge from the New groups and churches, and movements to Christ to multiply in the People Group and Region, and beyond to new People Groups and Regions.

Pray consistently for your Unreached People Group or Region for these 7 things to happen.  Next week we will look at the bigger picture of how to find your Unreached Focus for Prayer.

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