Do we misunderstand 'unreached people'?

• Is redefining 'unreached people' to include our neighbors hampering international missions?

The hosts discuss a Christian Post article reporting that mission alliances worry Christians now define 'unreached' as their unbelieving neighbor, which — the article claims — is hampering funding for truly unreached people groups (tribes in Sudan, Malawi, the pygmies). One host pushes back, calling it a current problem but disagreeing with the framing; the hosts converge on 'yes and yes': the neighbor is unreached and so are the distant tribes, citing the call to be witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and to the ends of the earth. They add that long-range missions work best by building local infrastructure — churches that operate apart from the missionary's presence, as Paul did in Ephesus.