4. Today's Resources for World Mission

We can see from this table the many rivers of resources streaming across the Earth as a de facto, single global evangelization movement. The present situation, however, is that the vast bulk of these resources benefit only the Christian world. Even in foreign missions, 80% of personnel and 85% of money are devoted to majority-Christian lands such as missionaries from USA to Brazil or Kenya or the Philippines.

It is obvious that all segments of the Earth have a right to their fair share of resources of all kinds. The least that Christians can do is to ensure that the resources which are under their own direct control--the spiritual resources cataloged below--get properly shared by all. To redress the present situation, Christians will need to concentrate on World A far more.

A. Unevangelized	B. Evangelized Non-Christian	C. Christian
Missions to World A: $0.25 billion p.a. 26 restricted-access countries 10,200 foreign missionaries (2.4%) No citywide evangelistic campaigns 20,500 full-time Christian workers 50,000 lay Christians 0.1% of all Christian literature 0.01% of all Christian radio/TV	Missions to World B: $1.8 billion p.a. 103,000 foreign missionaries (24.5%) 300 city-wide campaigns annually 1.3 million full-time Christian workers 8.9% of all Christian literature 3.9% of all Christian radio/TV	Home Christianity: $163 billion p.a. 306,000 foreign missionaries to majority-Christian lands 1,300 city-wide campaigns per year 4.2 million full-time Christian workers 91% of all Christian literature 96% of all Christian radio/TV

Examples: Scripture languages | Missionary deployment (20k pdf)

Data snapshot date: 2000. For more detail see World Christian Trends, global diagram 24.