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.

Herman and Rusty are the two friends from the Herman & Rusty children’s book series. In the books they bounce around history. On this site they bounce around the world — making field notes, asking questions, and reminding kids that every person on every continent is loved by God and worth praying for.

The site is designed so that the books and the atlas reinforce each other. Read about a friend in the book. Then come find their country on the globe.

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.

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.