Shameful Statistics

I found this while reading at the Joshua Project:

In 2006, $24 billion was embezzled by church staff and treasurers world-wide. This is $2 billion more than the $22 billion world’s annual giving to missions. Eliminating this fraudulent activity within the Church could add billions of dollars to global missions.

The American career missionary work force is rapidly shrinking. In 1986 there were 69,000 career American missionaries, in 2006 that was down to 35,000; almost a 50% reduction in the last 20 years.

Map of Least ReachedEverywhere you see red represents the least reached (and/or unreached) people groups around the world. As many who are reading this are from the United States, where even the poverty level represents great wealth in much of the rest of the world, I hope it will encourage this type of information will encourage you to pray and ask God why we enjoy such blessings while much of the world has so little.

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