Source: Clarity for the Nations, August 11, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you want to understand the future of missions in Africa, start with two numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first number is 5,413. That is Joshua Project\u2019s estimate of the cross-cultural workers needed to reach every frontier people group on the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The second number is 123 million. That is the estimate of evangelical believers already living in just four countries: Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, and Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Set those side by side, and it comes to roughly one worker for every 23,000 African evangelicals. The African church does not lack people. It lacks awareness, mobilization, and equipping at scale. That is a solvable problem, and the timeline is years, not generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full article by Joshua Project\u2019s Bud Houston<\/a>. It also points out that more than a third of Africa\u2019s frontier people groups, 178 of them, are found in just two countries, Sudan and Chad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Clarity for the Nations, August 11, 2026 If you want to understand the future of missions in Africa, start with two numbers. The first number is 5,413. That is Joshua Project\u2019s estimate of the cross-cultural workers needed to reach every frontier people group on the continent. The second number is 123 million. That is … Continue reading Why the African Church Is Positioned to Reach Its Own Frontier Within a Decade<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14766,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765\/revisions\/14766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}