World Mission Update

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World Mission Update

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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)

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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.

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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.)

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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 worlds unreached peoples live in
  this area.

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Challenges Trends - 1

• The Challenge Of Islam
• India The Next Big Frontier?
• The Decline of Tribal Religions

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Challenges Trends - 2

1. The Movement Of The Church To The Developing
   World
2. Kingdom Paradigm
3. Power Ministry, Prayer and Spiritual Warfare

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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.

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Challenges Trends - 4

• 10. Globalization, Labor Movements and
  Opportunities for Tent-Making Minstries.
• 11. Partnerships To Reach UPGs
• 12. House-Church Based Church-planting Movements
• 13. Radio Ministry New Unity Plans
• 14. Cyber-Mission Mission On The Internet

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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)

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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.
• Its a place where missionaries must be.

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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.

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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/mi
  ssions/cybermissions.htm

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For More Information On Missions

• http//www.aibi.ph/missions/