How does PWCM distinguish between "unreached" and "unengaged" groups?

• A. Unreached: minimal or no access to the gospel; unengaged: there is no current mission effort to reach the group.
• B. Unreached: no church plants exist; unengaged: missionaries are present but not evangelizing.
• C. Unreached: groups with many churches; unengaged: groups with some outreach.
• D. Unreached: geographic isolation; unengaged: digital isolation.

Answer: (A)

In PWCM, the distinction hinges on access to the gospel versus active mission effort. An unreached group is one that has minimal or no opportunity to hear or understand the gospel in their own language and cultural context. An unengaged group is one for which there is no current mission effort—no organized outreach, partnership, or church-planting activity targeting them. So a group can be unreached because people don’t have a clear way to hear the gospel, and it can be unengaged because there’s no deliberate work happening to reach them, even if some presence exists elsewhere. The correct understanding combines these two ideas: unreached means little or no gospel access, and unengaged means there’s no ongoing mission effort to reach that group. The other options introduce factors like the number of churches or forms of isolation that aren’t the criteria PWCM uses to separate unreached from unengaged.