Unreached People Groups of the San Francisco Bay area 

YWAM San Francisco is wanting to start ministries amongst some of the key unreached people groups of the San Francisco Bay area. An unreached people group is a sociological grouping  of people that shares a common affinity with one another and does not have an adequate amount of indigenous believers and resources amongst them to evangelize their own group of people. Joshua project (www.joshuaproject.net) has determined the unreached status by those groups which have less than 2% evangelicals and less than 5% Christian adherents. The gospel can easily spread amongst these people groups due to the common affinities that they share with one another. It is not the purpose to keep them isolated from other people groups but it is the purpose to use their common affinity to identify them for strategic purposes of knowing which groups have the gospel and which ones are yet to receive it.

There are 16,689 people groups in the world today of which 6898 are unreached with the gospel. Most of these unreached people groups are in the 10/40 window which are the countries in the eastern hemisphere between 10 and 40 degrees north of the equator. This would include countries in Saharan and North Africa as well as most of Asia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10/40_Window Many of these countries pose difficulties in preaching the gospel while others are still open.

With the massive globalization and urbanization of the planet some of these unreached people groups are now amongst us in the San Francisco Bay Area. Of the 6898 people groups that are unreached there are 60 that are in the United States. YWAM wants to work with churches that are doing ministry amongst these people groups, start churches where no mission or church is focusing on, engage in mercy ministries and help train the existing indigenous Christians so they can better reach their own people. Below is a listing of some of those groups in the San Francisco Bay area. Our desire is to see these people reached with the gospel.

Some of the figures in the table below are taken from the US Census bureau’s report on the language spoken in home by those 5 years and above. If it shows there are 10,000 that speak Gujarati as the language in the home this does not mean there are 10,000 Gujarati’s in the San Francisco Bay Area as it would not count those that speak English in the home as their first language. Other numbers were estimates as best as I could obtain. I have also included a few large people groups that are not unreached at the bottom of the table. You can see more information that the 2010 US Census just released at  http://www.mercurynews.com/census/ci_18045213 

Are you interested in reaching these people? We are at YWAM San Francisco and are looking for people like you who have a long term call amongst these key unreached people groups. Write Tim Svoboda at This E-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information.