World Mission Update

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.

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

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

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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)

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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

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