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World Mission Update

Explore the latest statistics on world missions, including population, major religions, growth rates, and missionary efforts. Learn about the challenges and trends in mission work, from reaching unreached people groups to the rise of ethnic churches and cyber-mission on the internet.

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World Mission Update

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  1. World Mission Update Global Missions Statistics, 2001 AD Prepared by Mobilization DivisionU.S. Center for World Mission, Pasadena, CA

  2. World Population • 6.055 Billion People • One third call themselves Christians • One third (non-Christians) live in already reached people groups. • One-third (non-Christians) live in unreached people groups

  3. Adherents Of Major Religions • 2.02 Billion - Christians of all kinds • 1.21 Billion – Muslims • 1.07 Billion - Roman Catholics • 925 Million - Atheists & Nonreligious • 824 Million – Hindus • 657 Million – Evangelicals • 364 Million – Buddhists • 320 Million - Chinese Folk Religionists • 231 Million - Tribal Religionists • 200 Million - Other Religions • 24 Million – Sikhs • 14.5 Million - Jews

  4. Growth Rates • World Population – 1.6% • Muslims - 2.6% • All Christians - 2.6% • Roman Catholics - 1.2% • Protestants - 2.8% • Evangelicals - 4.7% • Pentecostals and Charismatics - 7.3%.

  5. Missionaries • 425,000 Missionaries from all branches of Christendom • (Only between 2 and 3% of those missionaries work among unreached peoples.) • 140,000 Protestant Missionaries 64,000 Protestant Missionaries From USA

  6. Distribution Distribution of Protestant Missionaries Among Cultural Blocks • 74% Among Nominal Christians • 8% Among Tribal Peoples • 6% Among Muslims • 4% Among Non-Religious/Atheists • 3% Among Buddhists • 2% Among Hindus • 2% Among Chinese Folk Religions • 1% Among Jewish Peoples

  7. Finance • 15,500 Billion - Total Annual Income of Christians Worldwide • 280 Billion - Giving to Christian Causes (1.8% of total income) • 16 Billion - To Foreign Missions (5.7% of Giving to Christian causes)

  8. Where The $ Go • Approx. 87% goes for work among those already Christian. • Approx. 12% for work among already evangelized non-Christians, and • Approx. 1% for work among people groups in the Unevangelized or Unreached category.

  9. Unimax People Groups • A Unimax People is the largest group within which the Gospel can spread as a church planting movement without encountering barriers of understanding or acceptance. • Of 24,000 Unimax people groups, 10,000 are unreached • 3700 Muslim 2700 Hindu 2000 Tribal 1000 Buddhist 400 Other 150 Chinese Folk Religions 50 Non-Religious/Atheist • (Of those Unreached, 1600 have more than 10,000 persons; 8,400 fewer than 10,000. A large number of these Unreached Groups live in so called closed countries.)

  10. The 10-40 Window • A group of 50 countries • Containing 2.5 billion people • Stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean • And between 10 degrees North and 40 degrees North latitude. • Most of the world’s unreached peoples live in this area.

  11. Challenges & Trends - 1 • The Challenge Of Islam • India – The Next Big Frontier? • The Decline of Tribal Religions

  12. Challenges & Trends - 2 • The Movement Of The Church To The Developing World • Kingdom Paradigm • Power Ministry, Prayer and Spiritual Warfare

  13. Challenges & Trends - 3 7.The Global Mega-City As The Center of Mission 8.The Rise of Ethnic Churches In Global Cities 9.Reached To Unreached - Not West To Rest.

  14. Challenges & Trends - 4 10. Globalization, Labor Movements and Opportunities for Tent-Making Minstries. 11. Partnerships To Reach UPG’s 12. House-Church Based Church-planting Movements 13. Radio Ministry – New Unity & Plans 14. Cyber-Mission – Mission On The Internet

  15. Cyber-Mission • Worldwide Internet Population: • 445.9 million (eMarketer) • 533 million (Computer Industry Almanac) • Projection for 2004: • 709.1 million (eMarketer) • 945 million (Computer Industry Almanac) • Online Language Populations (September 2002) • English 36.5%; Chinese 10.9%, Japanese 9.7%, Spanish 7.2%, German 6.7%, Korean 4.5%, Italian 3.8%, French 3.5%, Portuguese 3.0%, Russian 2.9%, Dutch 2.0% (Source: Global Reach)

  16. Religion Online • There are over 275 million Internet searches each day and 80% of all Internet session begin at a search engine. (Internetstatistics.com) • Religion is one of the main topics people search for. • Pew Internet surveys found that 28 million Americans get religion information online, that 3 million do so daily, and that 25 % of net users search for religion-related topics. • Barna Research estimates that up to 50 million Americans may worship solely over the Internet by 2010. • There is every indication that the Internet is a major source of religious information where people of many cultures and languages collect their spiritual facts and opinions in private. • It’s a place where missionaries must be.

  17. Internet Possibilities • Online evangelism using email, web pages and chat rooms. • Online counselling and mentoring. • Web-based distance education such as that provided free by the Asian Internet Bible Institute (http://www.aibi.ph) • Cross-cultural exposure for young people. • Using email groups to coordinate missions specialists. • Reach into “closed countries” and unreached people groups. • Evangelistic pen-pals using email. • Advocacy, mobilization and awareness raising about missions.

  18. Your Church And The Internet • Set up a Cyber-Missions department where your young people can get experience in cross-cultural ministry without leaving home. • Have a church website that is deliberately evangelistic and culturally sensitive. • Train your lay workers using online training tools so they can train after work / at their convenience. • Use email to contact church members, missionaries etc and have a pen-pals coordinator. • Free Paper On Cybermissions: http://www.aibi.ph/missions/cybermissions.htm

  19. For More Information On Missions http://www.aibi.ph/missions/

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