We made it to 2026. Well done!
Let me briefly share with you four hopes I have for the New Year.
Hope #1
Brewing efforts and new ones yet to be conceived will result in the number of unengaged Muslim people groups dropping from 390 to under 200, on the way to zero! Progress is being made in South Asia, Eastern Africa and Indonesia. May God bless us to see the day when no Muslim people group is left without the first witness for Christ in their midst.
Hope #2
That Frontier People Groups would rise in the consciousness of the global church. An FPG is an Unreached People Group with 0.1% or fewer Christian Adherents and no confirmed, sustained movements to Jesus. Thirty eight FPG are over 10,000,000 in population. Most of those people live in India and more than half are Muslims.
Hope #3
I sincerely hope the number of large scale evil things done in the name of Islam would plummet in 2026.
Hope #4
As I write, it’s Commitment Night at the Urbana missions conference in Phoenix. Please join me in expressing this hope in prayer: Father God, smile down on the hundreds of people making decisions to follow you to the ends of the earth. Help them to obey all the way. And God, would you give them opportunity to speak to their families and churches when they return about your love for all peoples. Thank you. Amen.