There are now 3 basic versions of “The Wall of the Unreached.”
The 2015 version is a series of panels that lists all 7,000+ unreached people groups in the world. It has been exhibited at numerous conferences, conventions, and events around the country to help bring awareness to the unreached across the globe. Standing at roughly 7 feet in height and 50 feet in length, the black monolithic wall is a virtual “Vietnam Memorial Wall” type of reminder of the sheer immensity of the task. Listing all the names of all 7000 unreached people groups (2015 listing) in a font that everyone can read, it’s perfect to help bring home the challenge remaining. This version of the Wall is a powerful tool that conveys the immensity of the task ahead and can be used as a visual aid during missions events at churches, schools, or conferences.
The 2023 version (the “red wall”) builds on the impact of the 2015 version by pointing out that God has heard our prayers. There are movements breaking out all over the world — to the point that more Muslims have made Jesus their Lord over the past 25 years than had done so in the past 15 centuries. It also seeks to introduce “Frontier Peoples.” This concept has been embraced by JoshuaProject.net as being a manner in which we can highlight the largest and most influential remaining unreached peoples.
The 2025 version emphasizes peoples and places in a “both/and” approach. The first panel contains a listing of all 7400 unreached peoples (September 2025 data), though, as you can imagine, in a much smaller font. Though it doesn’t have the visual impact of emphasize the sheer numbers, it does get the job done in a compact way. Whereas a group of 30 to 40 people can easily stand in reading distance of the 2015 version, probably only 5 to 10 at a time can read the names of the unreached people groups on panel 1 of this 2025 version. But this 2025 version charters new ground by combining an ethnographic (people-group) focus with a geographic (places) lense. Panel 2 shows a giant screen grab from a September 2025 version of the country map of Nepal, illustrating the granularity we are now seeing in analyzing church presence at literally a village level. This is phenomenal progress for the global church – to be able to understand the task remaining for the first time in history at a village level in a land like Nepal. At the time of creating this 2025 Wall, only a handful of countries contain any significant amount of data like Nepal, but efforts are now underway in a dozen other lands with a vision of completing the analysis of the world at a village level by 2033. The Coalition of the Willing, or COTW (with help from its subset of organizations, “ACHIEVE”) might be leading the charge on this effort, but the collaborative initiative, in and of itself, is a testimony to the fact that we are living in a new day of cooperation and joint partnership. The Unleashed for the Unreached campaign is working fully in partnership with COTW. When we say “we are mapping the world at a village level,” we mean now literally that *Christendom* is mapping the world. This is something to celebrate. And celebration can happen at another level, too. In cooperation with movement-based growth worldwide, there are so many people coming to Jesus. (See pictures of recent baptisms from COTW partners on panel 3.) And the best news of all is that you and your church can be involved too! (If you’d like to know more about helping with a Coalition of the Willing or U4theU project, use the contact form in the menu above to share your desire. Someone will respond within 48 hours.) When you book the 2025 version of the Wall of the Unreached, you can bring home these and many other lessons we’re learning as a global church. Thanks for your interest in the Wall of the Unreached!
