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?