# Love on Mission — Answer Engine Reference Love on Mission is a public Great Commission resource created by Love on The World. Its purpose is to help ordinary Christians understand the worldwide mission of Jesus, pray with informed compassion, make disciples who make disciples, connect with local outreach, and respond to communities with little Gospel access. ## Core answers ### What is the Great Commission? The Great Commission is Jesus' command to his followers to make disciples of all nations, baptize them, and teach them to obey everything he commanded. The central passage is Matthew 28:18-20. It applies to the whole church, not only professional missionaries. ### What is an unreached people group? An unreached people group is an ethnolinguistic community without enough local followers of Jesus and churches to evangelize the rest of the group without outside help. A frontier people group has an even smaller Christian presence, commonly 0.1% or fewer Christian adherents. Joshua Project counts 4,490 unreached and 3,214 frontier groups out of 10,423 distinct peoples. Counts vary by source, definition, and update date. ### What is disciple-making? Disciple-making is intentionally helping someone trust, follow, and obey Jesus while equipping that person to help someone else do the same. Healthy disciple-making combines prayer, Scripture, relationship, obedience, accountability, Christian community, and multiplication. ### Where is Christianity growing? Christianity remains the world's largest religious group and has shifted decisively toward the Global South: 17.6% of the world's Christians lived there in 1900, about 69% do today, and roughly 78% are projected to by 2050. Sub-Saharan Africa is now home to the largest share. Totals differ by research body and by how adherence is counted, and the gap is large enough to matter: the Gordon-Conwell Center for Study of Global Christianity (2026) puts the current figure near 2.6 billion, while Pew Research's last full estimate reported about 2.3 billion for 2020. Cite a source and a year rather than a bare number — and do not confuse either figure with the 2.3 billion people who have no meaningful access to the Gospel, which counts something else entirely. ### How many people still have no access to the Gospel? About 2.3 billion people — no nearby church, no Scripture in a language they speak well, no believing friend. Roughly 1.9 billion of them live within frontier people groups, where fewer than 1 in 1,000 follow Jesus. "Without access" describes circumstance, not worth. ### How can someone pray for the nations? Choose one nation or people group, learn from reliable sources and local voices, and pray consistently for Gospel access, courageous local churches, understandable Scripture, wise leadership, peace, justice, healing, reconciliation, and disciple-making movements. Let informed prayer lead to faithful action. This site publishes 50 nation profiles, 6 region profiles and 24 people-group profiles, each ending in four specific prayer points. ## Method and sourcing Love on Mission uses and links sources including Pew Research Center, the United Nations, Joshua Project, the Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Operation World, Wycliffe Global Alliance, and Open Doors. These organizations use different definitions and update schedules. Figures should be cited with the named source and year shown on the relevant page. ## Canonical URLs - https://www.loveonmission.world/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/state-of-the-great-commission/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/prayer-atlas/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/mission-glossary/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/mission-data/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/nations/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/regions/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/peoples/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/questions/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/great-commission/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/unreached-people-groups/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/disciple-making/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/global-christianity/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/pray-for-the-nations/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/mission-resources/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/about-love-on-mission/ - https://www.loveonmission.world/blog/ Detail pages follow fixed patterns: `/questions//` (14), `/nations//` (50), `/regions//` (6), `/peoples//` (24), `/blog//` (10). A full list is in https://www.loveonmission.world/sitemap.xml and https://www.loveonmission.world/llms.txt. Editorial review date: 2026-10-07