Major center for missionary sending
For more than a century, the United States and Canada have formed one of the world's largest bases for sending missionaries.
Region
North America
6
Countries
834
Peoples
130
Unreached
21.5%
Evangelicals (weighted)
Peoples overview
6Countries
834people groups
130unreached
21.5%evangelicals (weighted average)
- 104 Unreached 12.5%
- 26 Minimally reached 3.1%
- 174 Superficially reached 20.9%
- 343 Partially reached 41.1%
- 187 Significantly reached 22.4%
Compiled from the data of each country in this region.
836Language
300With complete Bible
536Without complete Bible
Compiled from the data of each country in this region.
What it is
Overview
North America comprises just 6 countries and territories, but two of them, the United States and Canada, are among the world’s largest economic powers. The region also includes Mexico, Greenland (the world’s largest island, mostly covered in ice) and small territories such as Bermuda and Saint Pierre and Miquelon.
It is one of the most evangelical regions of the Americas, with 21% evangelicals, a legacy of centuries of Protestant revivals in the United States and Canada, which became major centers for sending missionaries around the world. Mexico, in turn, combines a strong Catholic tradition with steady evangelical growth in recent decades.
Even so, the region is home to 835 people groups, of which 130 are still considered unreached, many of them Indigenous peoples of the Canadian Arctic, Hispanic communities in the United States and peoples native to Mexico. And of the 836 languages spoken in the region, 536 still have no part of the Bible translated.
Behind the image of a Christian and developed region lie pockets of growing secularism, urban loneliness and Indigenous peoples historically overlooked by the church. Pray for a North America that continues to send workers to the world while also reaching those within its own borders.
Context and characteristics
21% evangelicals
One of the highest evangelical proportions in the Americas, the fruit of successive historic revivals.
130 unreached people groups
They include Arctic Indigenous peoples, Hispanic communities and peoples native to Mexico that still have no church.
Rising secularism
Despite a strong Christian heritage, the number of people with no religious affiliation is growing in the United States and Canada.
Icy Greenland
The world's largest island, mostly covered in ice, is part of the region and has a small, scattered population.
Countries in this region
Unreached peoples of this region 112 in total
Mission indicators
130
Unreached peoples
Combined from the countries in the region
536
Languages with no Bible translation at all
Combined from the countries in the region
What to pray for
Intercession
For the 130 unreached people groups of North America, including Indigenous peoples and immigrant communities.
For Bible translation into the region's 536 languages that still have no part of Scripture.
For missionaries sent from the United States and Canada to the nations.
Against the secularism and spiritual indifference growing in North America's major cities.
For the Indigenous peoples of the Canadian Arctic and Greenland, who remain largely unreached.
For Mexico, for evangelical growth that deepens discipleship rather than simply increasing numbers.
For families and young people in the region, affected by loneliness and identity crises.