Holding the Ropes: Supporting Missionaries
Holding the Ropes: Support WELCOME This is the first week of our mission month. I love this time of year. We get to talk about God’s heart for the nations. He is at work in our big world. I was talking with someone a few weeks back about the planet. How big is the population? Does anyone know? We can check online at the population clock. https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ It tells us there are 8.2 billion people on the planet. Two-point-three of them claim to be Christians. If all those people who say they are Christians are truly trusting Christ as their Savior, that leaves 5.9 billion people who don’t . Fortunately, there are approximately 445,000 missionaries. If they were evenly distributed, that would mean there is one missionary for every 13,000 people. However, they are not. Ninety odd percent of them go to the reached parts of the world, leaving 3.5 billion to the least reached. Some don’t have a Bible translated in their native...