Africa Stats •Population of Africa – 997,260,873 •Percentage of Evangelicals – 14.8% •Total number of Countries – 58 •Number of Restricted Countries – 12 •Total number of People Groups – 3,124 •Number of Unreached People Groups – 1,977 Africa is one of the most diverse continents with a variety of languages, cultures, peoples, religions, and…
"…to the praise of the glory of His grace…" Ephesians 1:6
Africa’s Hot Spots These warrant passionate prayer: 1 The Great Lakes War. This became Africa’s first major international conflict. Tensions between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples in Rwanda and Burundi have led to civil wars and periodic genocidal massacres over the past four decades. The Rwanda genocide of 1994 triggered a chain reaction of war…
Please plan on participating in our Week of Prayer at Springs of Grace (January 10th-17th). This is an important step in our living out the vision God has given us for 2010. It is a reflection of our commitment to be dependent upon the Holy Spirit instead of dependent upon ourselves. It will testify to…
< prev January 9 The Great Commission and the Unfinished Task The Lord Jesus Christ gave His Church clear instructions in His resurrection ministry: · The evangelistic challenge in Mark 16:15 · The discipling/church planting challenge in Matthew 28:18-20 · The teaching challenge of Luke 24 · The missions challenge of John 20:21 · The…
Challenges for Prayer 1 Many of the least-reached are hedged in by political, religious, social and spiritual barriers, but they need cross-cultural gospel input from workers called of God 2 Relatively few of these 3,500 peoples have no known Christians among them, but in most they constitute a small minority — on average 1.2% of…
January 7 next > The Unfinished Task — The World’s Peoples It was only during the 1990s that a reasonably complete listing of the world’s peoples and languages was developed Here is a summary of our present assessment of the least reached peoples Over 90% of all the least-reached peoples on earth either live within…
Adoption as Basic Christianity Steve Burchett James would be surprised that we now have what some have called an “adoption movement” in our country. When he wrote, “Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress” (James 1:27), he was writing about…
The Unfinished Task Religious Systems The World’s Religions and the Challenge they represent 1 Christianity has become the most global of religions a) Nominalism has become a major issue b) Christo-pagans who, while statistically counted as Christians, are practising occultists, shamanists, fetishists, etc c) Sectarianism 2 Muslims live largely in the great arc of territory…
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Pray For…The World Stats •Population – Over 6 Billion •The World’s population has more than doubled in the last 40 years •Impact of older and new diseases has increased such as AIDS and malaria •The Indian sub-continent has the largest concentration and variety of least-reached peoples and people groups on earth •Over 90% of unreached…