A field guide to a world God loves.

The web is full of beautiful maps and full of kids’ ministry sites. There aren’t many places that put both together — a real, accurate, kid-respecting atlas with a prayer journal built in. That’s what Kids Missions Explorer tries to be.

Every country page is made from real data: population, capital, languages, and statistics on education and life expectancy from public sources. The information about people groups and unreached communities comes from Joshua Project, a ministry that has been mapping the unfinished task of world missions for decades.

An “unreached people group” is a community where there aren’t yet enough Christian neighbors to share the good news of Jesus with everyone in their own language. There are still thousands of people groups in this category — billions of people, total — spread across every continent.

Praying for them is something a kid can do. You don’t need a passport, a budget, or a degree. You just need to know their name. That’s what this atlas exists for: to help kids learn names, see faces, and pray.

• The globe on the home page is interactive. Drag to spin it, click any country to land there, or use the search to find a tiny one.
• Each country page shows a flag, capital, population, languages, wildlife, food, fun facts, the religious make-up of the population, the unreached people groups who live there, and a kid-friendly prayer journal.
• “Say hello”on a country page will speak the local greeting out loud in that country’s language, so kids can hear what the words sound like.
• The chat with Herman & Rustyonly accepts pre-written questions chosen by us — never free typing — so kids can’t share personal information even by accident.
• Featured countries on the home page rotate every day, so the same eight countries everyone sees today are different from the eight everyone sees tomorrow.

Kids Missions Explorer pairs naturally with the free missions curriculum from Ark Kids®, the children’s ministry of The Ark Church. The atlas gives your kids a real country to explore each week. The curriculum gives the lesson, the prayer, and the discipleship. Use them together.

This site was built with kids in mind from the very first line of code. We collect zero personal information by design: no accounts, no analytics, no tracking cookies, no chat history saved on our servers. The only thing your child’s browser remembers is whether a parent has confirmed supervision. The full breakdown is on the privacy page.

The first time anyone visits the site, a welcome screen asks for parental supervision before any of the content unlocks. The home page and every country page also carry an always-visible online safety reminder.

We recommend visiting the site withyour child the first time, talking through what an unreached people group is in your own words, and praying together for the country you land on. That’s the experience the site was built to support.

Kids Missions Explorer is built and maintained by Dwayne Riner, the author of the Herman & Rusty children’s book series. Questions, corrections, prayer requests, and ideas are all welcome at support@dwayneriner.com.

The atlas is a labor of love. If anything is broken, missing, or could be more accurate — tell us. We want to fix it.

My friend Matt Clayton plays Rusty McNutt in the Herman & Rusty YouTube show — I play Herman, in case you were wondering. Off camera, Matt runs a ministry called Project Playground that does exactly what it sounds like: it builds playgrounds for kids who have never seen one. Real swings, real slides, real grass-stained knees, in places where children have grown up without any of that. If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like to actually dosomething for the kids you’re learning about on this atlas, this is one of the best answers I know.

Herman.Herman is an inventor — the basement-workshop kind, with brass tools and copper tubing and too many half-finished projects on the bench. He’s curious about everything, asks too many questions, and is the first to volunteer when something needs figuring out.

Rusty McNutt.Rusty is Herman’s best friend and the heart of every adventure. He’s a proud Scotsman, an enthusiastic defender of haggis, and a fanatic about football (the kind played with feet, thank you very much). Rusty’s the one who notices the people most folks walk past — which is exactly why he makes a perfect guide for an atlas like this.

The full series lives at hermanandrusty.com. In the YouTube show The Adventures of Herman and Rusty, Dwayne Riner plays Herman and Matt Clayton plays Rusty.