A WANNABE FRANCISCAN MISSIONARY, AND A DISCIPLE OF ST. ARBUCKS

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Mission Statistics

Facts about evangelical status worldwide:

  • approx. 2 billion people are considered an unreached people group
  • only 2-3% of protestant missionaries are reaching this group
  • 95% of all unreached people live in the 10/40 window
  • 66,000 people die every day from this group
  • out of every gospel dollar only 4 cents goes to missions
  • of the 4% that goes to the mission field, 80% of it goes to already established works
  • 27% of the planet has 2-3% of the missionary work force helping them get saved
  • 97% of missionaries work in already evangelized fields
  • last year more money went towards ecclesiastical crime than went to missions
  • America spends more money on dogfood than on missions
  • 10,000 chinese come to the Lord every day
  • every 7 weeks 1 million Latin Americans come to Christ
  • most expensive country to send a missionary to-Japan
  • least expensive-Mozambique