Where in the world are all the Christians?

The media would still have you believe Christianity is a religion that is synonymous with the right wing whose main concern is running the US. The majority of the world's Christians; however, are not in the US. In fact there are Christians in every country of the world, countries that you may have not heard of like Djibouti and Tuvalu.

Christianity is the only truly global religion. You will find missionaries in New Mexico from Indonesia witnessing to the Navajos. You will find Nigerians starting churches across Europe. The Chinese church is sending thousands upon thousands to the Middle East.

The world continent by continent has an almost even distribution of Christians today. This has of course changed over history and even the last 100 years. I am throwing out all these stats without support, but hey this is a blog. Operation World has a wonderful podcast and presentation where I have pulled these pictures on their website. Check out the YLG podcast and presentation.

The majority of the world's mission force comes from non-Western countries. To my surprise, Mongolia sends the most missionaries per Christian- 1 missionary for every 222 Christians. The next greatest sending countries per Christian are Lebanon, Singapore, Niger, and Nepal. I think this should send quite a message to the much wealthier churches of the West.

In closing, Operation World has a great resource that outlines all the countries of the world in good detail and also how you can pray for all the countries more specifically. I would highly recommend getting this book.






Thought for the Day: When man works, man works. When man prays, God works.