Kingdom Thinking

Completing The Task

World Population: 7 Billion

33% include Christians of all kinds.

40% are reached (or evangelized) non-Christians.

27% are unreached (i.e.unevangelized) non-

Christians.

Foreign Missionaries

429,000 Missionaries from all branches of Christendom (Only between 2 and 3% of those missionaries work among unreached peoples.)

Missionary presence

15,500 Billion - Total Annual Income

300 Billion - Giving to Christian Causes

(1.8% of total income of 15,500 Billion)

17 Billion - To Foreign Missions (5.7% of

300 Billion or 0.11% of 15,500 Billion)

Annual Global Church Finance in US Dollars

Where Foreign Mission Funds are Spent

~87% goes for work among those already Christian (14.8 Billion).

~12% for work among already Evangelized but Non-Christian (2.04 Billion).

~1% for work among still Unevangelized and Unreached people groups (0.17 Billion)

Annual Global Church Finance in US Dollars

Worldwide, believers give $17 billion on average tomissions

5.5% of all giving to Christian causes, or about$2,125 a year per church.

To make up an additional $600 million neededwould require only $80 more per year from eachchurch!

Only 80 cents more a year per person! If the U.S. 144 million born again adults, the cost would be only an extra $4.16 each.

Finances

Average Ministry Cost in U.S. Dollars for Each Convert's Baptism

Mozambique 1400 (least)

Ethiopia 2700 (2nd)

Nepal 3700 (5th)

Cambodia 4300 (8th)

Average Ministry Cost in U.S. Dollars for Each Convert's Baptism

Africa $14,000

Asia $61,000

Latin America $145,000

Oceania $634,000

Europe $993,000

USA $1,500,000

Others 600Buddhist 1000

Tribal2000

Hindu 2700

Muslim4100

Muslim Hindu Tribal Buddhist All Others

Unreached People Groups

YearAD

TotalWorld Population(millions)

ActiveBeliever(millions)

Worldpopulation per believer

Unreached people groups

Christian congregations per unreached people group

100 180 0.5 360 to 1 60000 1 to 12

1000 270 1 270 to 1 50000 1 to 5

1500 425 5 85 to 1 44000 1.1 to 1

1900 1620 78 21 to 1 40000 20 to 1

1970 3700 277 13 to 1 18000 150 to 1

2010 6700 800 7.3 to 1 8000 1000 to 1

Majority Religion

Christian Islam Hindu Buddhist Non-religious

The World’s Christians

Muslim dot layer mapThe World’s Muslims

The World’s Buddhists

The World’s Hindus

3%

CROSS-CULTURAL MISSIONARIESWHERE DO THEY COME FROM?

1 Mongolia 222

2 Lebanon 295

3 Singapore 400

4 Niger 451

5 Nepal 458

6 Sri Lanka 479

7 Spain 512

8 Faeroe Is 533

9 Mali 608

10 Thailand 633

How many Christians to send 1 missionary?*

*includes only Protestant, Anglican and Independent

There are 800 million Great Commission

Christians in the world.

Assuming an average church size of 100 persons,

we only need one new missionary from every 250

churches in order to send out the additional 32,000

that are needed!

Personnel

Prayer is something that everyone can do.

Using the “hour a day” method, a church of about

50 praying members could readily supply the

prayer support for an entire team of four

missionaries if they only prayed 5 minutes a day.

Prayer

What’s It Going To Take?

Priorities

Mobilizing

Sacrifice

Partnership

Prayer

Group Questions & Prayer

Taking our temperature:

1. How are our churches doing?

2. How are we leading by example?

3. What can we do financially?

4. How can we send more personnel?

5. What strategies of prayer can we develop?