Where Do We Need To Evangelize...really?

Before you run off to Africa with your bottle of water, please note where we really need Missionaries...

These Facts:

At the beginning of the 20th Century about 71% of the professing Christians of the world lived in Europe.

By the end of the 20th Century that number was 28%.

43% of Christians now live in Latin America and Africa.

In 1900 Africa had 10 million Christians (about 10% of the population). In 2000 that number was about 360 million (about half of the population). This represents the largest shift in religious affiliation in the history of the world on a single continent.

There are 17 million baptized members of the Anglican Church in Nigeria compared with 2.8 million in the US.

Every Sunday more Anglicans attend church in each Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda than did Anglicans in Britain and Canada and Episcopalians in the US combined.

The number of practicing Christians in China is approaching the number in the US.

Last Sunday more Christian believers attended church in China than in all of (so called) Christian Europe.

Kenya has more people in Christian churches on Sunday than Canada. More believers worship together in Nagaland than in Norway.

More Christian workers from Brazil are active in cross-cultural ministry outside of their homelands than from Britain or Canada.

More Presbyterians in Ghana attend church than in Scotland.

In Great Britain more than 15,000 foreign missionaries were hard at work evangelizing the locals of Great Britain. Most of them from Africa and Asia.

This is from John Piper as quoted from Mark Knoll’s, The New Shape of World Christianity