LET'S REACH THE WORLD! Information for Thought Prayer AND ACTION! 1

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE Acts 1:8 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. Samaria & the Uttermost Parts (Foreign Missions) By Population By Language By Tribes By 10/40 Window            Cities For More Information 3 6 12 14 16 20 Judea (Home Missions) U.S. Statistics About Our Country Cities In Need Conclusion 23 25 27 28 Information compiled from various sources by Pastor Doug Hammett Lehigh Valley Baptist Church, Emmaus, Pa 2

SAMARIA & THE UTTERMOST PARTS (FOREIGN MISSIONS) BY POPULATION World Population Growth Pop. Information Network of the United Nations *********************************** Year   1000 1500 1800 1850 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 1994 Projected 2000 2025 Population (in billions) 0.31 0.50 0.98 1.26 1.65 1.75 1.86 2.07 2.30 2.52 3.02 3.70 4.45 5.30 5.63   6.23 8.47 3

Our Present Population is 6 Bill.+ There are 228 countries in the world.   From January 1992 to July 1992, in a six-month period, 17 new countries were formed.   From January 1990 to December of 1991, 25% of the countries of the world changed governments. The Statistics are Staggering! Deaths 52,000,000 deaths per year 143,000 deaths per day 100 deaths per minute Births 77 million births per year 210,959 births per day 146 births per minute Unevangelized 3 Bill.+ people have NEVER heard the gospel! 4

The Need is Great! The following figures will give you an idea of the least evangelized areas of our world. USA Australia N. America S. America Europe Africa Asia 1 for every 1 for every 1 for every 1 for every 1 for every 1 for every 1 for every 14,819 95,745 252,185 527,714 831,081 1,275,564 3,784,037 The figures were reached by combining the figures for Independent Baptist Mission Agencies as reported in the 17th Edition of the "1998-2000 Mission Handbook". Where would you say the need is the greatest? 5

BY LANGUAGE ETHNOLOGUE Computerized mapping by Global Mapping International The Ethnologue is a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries.   The Ethnologue Name Index lists over 39,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate names.   The Ethnologue Language Family Index organizes languages according to language families and categorizes them into five geographical areas. 6

Geographic Distribution of Living Languages 1996 Total Living Percentage Languages The Americas 1,000 15% Africa 2,011 30% Europe 225 3% Asia 2,165 32% The Pacific 1,302 19% ----- TOTAL 6,703    Part of the Ethnologue, 13th Edition, Barbara F.    Grimes, Editor.    Copyright (C) 1996, Summer Institute of Linguistics,    Inc.   All rights reserved. 7

[Graphic: pie graph] The Americas 15% Africa 30% Europe 3% Asia 33% The Pacific 19% 8

Top 102 Languages by Population The population figures in this table refer to first language speakers in all countries.   Figures are taken from the 13th Edition of the Ethnologue (1996). Copyright (C) 1996, Summer Institute of Linguistics, Inc. Rank Language Country Population --------------------------------------------- 1 CHINESE, MANDARIN China 885,000,000 2-ENGLISH United Kingdom 332,000,000 3-SPANISH Spain 266,000,000 4 BENGALI Bangladesh 189,000,000 5 HINDI India 182,000,000 6-PORTUGUESE Portugal 170,000,000 7-RUSSIAN Russia 170,000,000 8 JAPANESE Japan 125,000,000 9-GERMAN, STANDARD Germany 98,000,000 10 CHINESE, WU China 77,175,000 11 JAVANESE Indonesia 75,500,800 12 KOREAN Korea, South 75,000,000 13-FRENCH France 72,000,000 14 VIETNAMESE Viet Nam 66,897,000 15 TELUGU India 66,350,000 16 CHINESE, YUE China 66,000,000 17 MARATHI India 64,783,000 18 TAMIL India 63,075,000 19-TURKISH Turkey 59,000,000 20 URDU Pakistan 56,584,000 21 CHINESE, MIN NAN China 49,000,000 22 CHINESE, JINYU China 45,000,000 23 GUJARATI India 44,000,000 24-POLISH Poland 44,000,000 25-ARABIC, EGYPTIAN SPOKEN Egypt 42,500,000 26-UKRAINIAN Ukraine 41,000,000 27-ITALIAN Italy 40,000,000 28 CHINESE, XIANG China 36,015,000 29 FARSI, WESTERN Iran 34,679,300 9

30 MALAYALAM India 34,022,000 31 CHINESE, HAKKA China 34,000,000 32 KANNADA India 33,663,000 33 ORIYA India 31,000,000 34 PANJABI, WESTERN Pakistan 30,000,000 35 SUNDA Indonesian 27,000,000 36 PANJABI, EASTERN India 26,013,000 37-ROMANIAN Romanian 26,000,000 38 BHOJPURI India 25,000,000 39 MAITHILI India 24,260,000 40-ARABIC, ALGERIAN SPOKEN Algeria 22,400,000 41 HAUSA Nigeria 22,000,000 42 BURMESE Myanmar 22,000,000 43-SERBO-CROATIAN Yugoslavia 21,000,000 44 CHINESE, GAN China 20,580,000 45 AWADHI India 20,300,000 46-THAI Thailand 20,047,000 47-DUTCH Netherlands 20,000,000 48 YORUBA Nigeria 20,000,000 49 AMHARIC Ethiopia 20,000,000 50 SINDHI Pakistan 19,675,000 51-ARABIC, MOROCCAN SPOKEN Morocco 19,542,000 52-ARABIC, SA&Lt SPOKEN Egypt 18,900,000 53 UZBEK, NORTHERN Uzbekistan 18,386,000 54 MALAY Malaysia 17,600,000 55 INDONESIAN Indonesia 17,000,000 56 IGBO Nigeria 17,000,000 57-TAGALOG Philippines 17,000,000 58 NEPALI Nepal 16,056,000 59-ARABIC, SUDANESE SPOKEN Sudan 16,000,000 60 SARAIKI Pakistan 15,020,000 61 CEBUANO Philippines 15,000,000 62-ARABIC, N. LEVANTINE SPOKEN Syria 15,000,000 63-THAI, NORTHEASTERN Thailand 15,000,000 64 ASSAMESE India 14,634,000 65-HUNGARIAN Hungary 14,500,000 66 AZERBAIJANI, SOUTH Iran 13,869,000 67 MADURA Indonesia 13,694,000 68 SINHALA Sri Lanka 13,220,000 69 HARYANVI India 13,000,000 10

70 MARWARI India 12,104,000 71-GREEK Greece 12,000,000 72-CZECH Czech Republic 12,000,000 73 CHHATTISGARHI India 10,985,000 74 MAGAHI India 10,821,000 75 DECCAN India 10,709,800 76 CHINESE, MIN BEI China 10,537,000 77 BELARUSAN Belarus 10,200,000 78 ZHUANG, NORTHERN China 10,000,000 79-ARABIC, NAJDI SPOKEN Saudi Arabia 9,800,000 80 PASHTO, EASTERN Pakistan 9,685,000 81-ARABIC, TUNISIAN SPOKEN Tunisia 9,308,000 82 RWANDA Rwanda 9,306,800 83 ZULU South Africa 9,140,000 84 BULGARIAN Bulgaria 9,000,000 85-SWEDISH Sweden 9,000,000 86 LOMBARD Italy 8,974,000 87 SOMALI Somalia 8,335,000 88 PASHTO, WESTERN Afghanistan 8,117,000 89 OROMO, WEST-CENTRAL Ethiopia 8,000,000 90 KAZAKH Kazakhstan 8,000,000 91 ILOCANO Philippines 8,000,000 92 TARTAR Russia 8,000,000 93-ARABIC, SANAANI SPOKEN Yemen 7,600,000 94 UYGHUR China 7,595,512 95 AZERBAIJANI, NORTH Azerbaijan 7,059,000 96 NAPOLETANO-CALABRESE Italy 7,047,400 97 KHMER, CENTRAL Cambodia 7,039,200 98 AKAN Ghana 7,000,000 99 FARSI, EASTERN Afghanistan 7,000,000 100 HILIGAYNON Philippines 7,000,000 101 KURMANJI Turkey 7,000,000 102 SHONA Zimbabwe 7,000,000 11

BY TRIBES & CULTURES Depending on how a researcher defines people groups, there are from 3,000 to 6,000 unreached tribal groups in the world.   They are found in places you would expect like Irian Jaya, Papau New Guinea, the Amazon Basin and parts of the African continent. However there are also tribal groups in virtually every country in the world!   Most of the 2 million nomads are actually tribal groups. In addition to the tribal situations all peoles on earth have a culture to which they belong.   When a missionay goes to a people, other than the culture in which he is raised, he must learn the culture of the people he is targeting to better communicate the gospel of Jesus Christ. SO HOW ARE THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD DIFFERENT??? Well, at the least, try "age-grading, athletic sports, bodily adornment, calendar, cleanliness training, community organization, cooking, co-operative labor, cosmology, courtship, dancing, decorative art, divination, division of labor, dream interpretation, education, eschatology, ethics, ethnobotany, etiquette, faith healing, family, feasting, fire making, folklore, food 12

taboos, funeral rites, games, gestures, gift giving, government, greetings, hair styles, hospitality, housing, hygiene, incest taboos, inheritance rules, joking, kin-groups, kinship nomenclature, language, law, luck superstitions, magic, marriage, mealtimes, medicine, modesty concerning natural functions, mourning, music, mythology, numerals, obstetrics, penal sanctions, personal names, population policy, postnatal care, pregnancy practices, property rights, propitiation of supernatural beings, puberty customs, religious ritual, residence rules, sexual restrictions, soul concepts, status differentiation, surgery, tool making, trade, visiting, weaning, and weather control." These 73 categories were first mentioned by Murdock in his "The Common Denominator of Cultures" (1945:124), then quoted in Christianity in Culture by Charles Kraft, 1979, Orbis Books. 13

BY 10/40 WINDOW The 10/40 Window The 1040 window refers to a rectangular shaped box stretching from West Africa to the eastern edge of Asia, between the 10 and 40 degree north latitude's.   95% of the worlds unreached peoples live in this area. This window outlines the heart lands of the major non-Christian religions of the world: Islam, and Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintoism, Confucianism. 14

[Graphic] Living in the 10/40 Window 82% of the Poorest of the Poor 95% of the Least Evangelized 2.7 Billion Buddhists, Hindus and Muslims. 15

The 100 Gateway Cities in the 10/40 Window One way to get a handle on this area of the world is by understanding the 100 Gateway Cities to these people. 10/40 NATION GATEWAY CITY POP. AREA RELIGION           Afghanistan Kabul 2,051,000 C Asia Islam Albania Tirana 427,000 SE Europe Islam Algeria Algiers 3,722,000 N Africa Islam Azerbaijan Baku 1,808,000 C Asia Islam Bahrain Manama 270,000 Mid East Islam Bangladesh Dhaka 9,105,000 SC Asia Islam Benin Cotonou 501,000 NC Africa Animism Bhutan Thimphu 121,400 SC Asia Buddhism Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 110,000 SE Asia Islam Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 437,000 NW Africa Islam Cambodia Phnom Penh 2,827,000 SE Asia Buddhism Chad N'Djamena 729,000 NC Africa Islam China Beijing 12,332,000 EC Asia Atheism China Changchun 2,620,000 EC Asia Atheism China Chengdu 3,528,000 EC Asia Atheism China Chongqing 3,646,000 EC Asia Atheism China Guangzhou 4,184,000 EC Asia Atheism China Hohhot 1,312,000 EC Asia Buddhism/Islam China Jinan 3,208,000 EC Asia Atheism China Lanzhou 1,803,000 EC Asia Islam China Lhasa 120,000 SC Asia Buddhism China Nanjing 3,073,000 EC Asia Atheism China Shanghai 15,112,000 EC Asia Atheism 16

China Shenyang 5,493,000 EC Asia Atheism China Taiyuan 2,596,000 EC Asia Atheism China Tianjin 10,995,000 EC Asia Atheism China Urumqi 1,724,000 C Asia Islam China Wuhan 4,556,000 EC Asia Atheism China Xian 3,417,000 EC Asia Atheism Djibouti Djibouti 137,000 NE Africa Islam Egypt Cairo 10,361,000 NE Africa Islam Eritrea Asmara 1,069,000 NE Africa Islam/Christianity Ethiopia Addis Abada 2,419,000 NE Africa Christianity Gambia Banjul 560,000 NW Africa Islam Gaza Strip Gaza 1,073,000 Mid East Islam Guinea Conakry 1,734,000 NW Africa Islam Guinea-Bissau Bissau 130,000 NW Africa Animism India Ahmedabad 4,396,000 SC Asia Hinduism India Amritsar 837,000 SC Asia Sikhism India Calcutta 13,604,000 SC Asia Hinduism India Delhi 10,857,000 SC Asia Hinduism India Hyderabad 4,208,000 SC Asia Hinduism India Jaipur 1,969,000 SC Asia Hinduism India Kanpur 2,378,000 SC Asia Hinduism India Lucknow 1,391,000 SC Asia Hinduism/Islam India Patna 2,209,000 SC Asia Hinduism India Pune 2,971,000 SC Asia Hinduism India Varanasi 1,193,000 SC Asia Hinduism Indonesia Jakarta 11,401,000 SE Asia Islam Iran Mashhad 2,450,000 Mid East Islam Iran Tehran 7,509,000 Mid East Islam Iraq Baghdad 4,511,000 Mid East Islam Israel Jerusalem 518,000 Mid East Judaism Israel Tel Aviv 2,092,000 Mid East Judaism Japan Fukuoko-Kita- Kyushu 4,164,000 E Asia Shintoism 17

Japan Osaka-Kobe- Kyoto 8,563,000 E Asia Shintoism Japan Sapporo 2,300,000 E Asia Shintoism Japan Tokyo-Yokohama 18,527,000 E Asia Shintoism Jordan Amman 1,273,000 Mid East Islam Kazakhstan Almaty 1,197,000 C Asia Islam Korea, North Pyongyang 2,471,000 E Asia Atheism Kuwait Kuwait City 231,000 Mid East Islam Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 710,000 C Asia Islam Laos Vientiane 491,000 SE Asia Buddhism Lebanon Beirut 1,543,000 Mid East Islam/Christianity Libya Tripoli 1,828,000 N Africa Islam Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 2,183,000 SE Asia Islam Maldives Male 50,000 SC Asia Islam Mali Bamako 680,000 NW Africa Islam Mauritania Nouakchott 650,000 NW Africa Islam Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 600,000 C Asia Animism/Buddhism Morocco Casablanca 3,858,000 N Africa Islam Myanmar (Burma) Yangon 3,905,000 SE Asia Buddhism Nepal Kathmandu 372,000 SC Asia Hinduism Niger Niamey 430,000 NW Africa Islam Nigeria Kano 660,000 WC Africa Islam Oman Muscat 177,000 Mid East Islam Pakistan Karachi 9,506,000 SC Asia Islam Pakistan Lahore 4,926,000 SC Asia Islam Qatar Doha 340,000 Mid East Islam Saudi Arabia Mecca 884,000 Mid East Islam Saudi Arabia Riyadh 2,664,000 Mid East Islam Senegal Dakar 1,847,000 NW Africa Islam Somalia Mogadishu 849,000 E Africa Islam Sri Lanka Colombo 2,345,000 SC Asia Buddhism 18

Sudan Khartoum 2,477,000 NE Africa Islam Syria Damascus 2,511,000 Mid East Islam Taiwan Taipei 3,561,000 E Asia Buddhism Tajikistan Dushanbe 620,000 C Asia Islam Thailand Bangkok 8,627,000 SE Asia Buddhism Tunisia Tunis 1,935,000 N Africa Islam Turkey Ankara 3,071,000 Mid East Islam Turkey Istanbul 8,143,000 Mid East Islam Turkey Izmir 2,169,000 Mid East Islam Turkmenistan Ashkhabad 407,000 C Asia Islam United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 730,000 Mid East Islam Uzbekistan Tashkent 2,037,000 C Asia Islam Vietnam Hanoi 1,260,000 SE Asia Buddhism Western Sahara El Aaiun 186,000 NW Africa Islam Yemen Sana'a 503,600 Mid East Islam           1995 population figures are based on United Nations or Rand McNally figures, whichever are larger, with modifications based on in-city verifications.   They have been collected by Viv Grigg and Leland Brown of the Urban Leadership Foundation, Pasadena, CA. Who is going to go to these cities with the Gospel of Jesus Christ? Will You? 19

FOR MORE INFORMATION How to Access Additional Data on the Joshua Project 2000 Peoples By Pete Holzmann - AD2000 Interactive Task Force Coordinator, & Doug Lucas - Brigada Forums Coordinator Need information on one of the Joshua Project 2000 listed peoples?   You can now retrieve people group data on-line: interactively via the World Wide Web (on ..., or other services) or using any of the many e-mail services around the world.   The "People Group Consultant" (PGC) is a cooperative venture made up of a number of different agencies and researchers, including the AD2000 and Beyond Movement.   You can access the People Group Consultant in two different ways: simple e-mail searches or even easier searches (and updates!) via the World Wide Web. Easy Access: Via E-mail Only   The most basic approach is through a simple e-mail exchange.   An e-mail search of PGC will provide a short list of information about any people group, such as population in each country or churches that have already adopted the people.   For example, to use this method to search for informatuon on the Yemeni people group, send an e-mail message to the address: hub@xc.org with 20

only the following line in the body of the e- mail message: search Yemeni It does not matter what you write in the "subject" section.   The hub computer will immediately e-mail you the results.   (You will receive the message usually within a few mintues or possibly several hours if your e-mail service is slow.)   For other people groups, simply replace the word "Yemeni" with the name of the group you are researching. Easier Access: Via the World Wide Web   If you have access to the World Wide Web (i.e. ... etc.), you can use the People Group Consultant more fully and easily.   Type in the following World Wide Web address (also called a "URL"): http://www.xc.org/pgc.html   You will see a form showing you how to search (fill in a blank and press the SEARCH button) or respond (click on the appropriate button).   If you do a search, in a few seconds you will see your results in the form of two charts one based on country data and the other organized by the people group itself. There are many other helpful World Wide Web resources for learning about a nation, people or language.   For example, "http://www.morningstar.org/world- christian.html" provides direct access to hundreds of resources (not all Christian) on 21

peoples, nations and religions. "http://www2.infoseek.com/Query?" searches millions of documents around the world for anything relating to any word you type! Finally, new Joshua Project 2000 updates will always be listed at the AD2000 and Beyond Movement's World Wide Web home page (at http://www.ad2000.org). Hundreds of pages of information gathered at the Global Consultation on World Evangelization '95 are also found there, as well as updated information about how to access the complete database and listing of least-reached peoples. 22

Judea (Home Missions) U.S. STATISTICS [Map: U.S.A.] If you draw a line across America from New York City to San Francisco the area to the north of that line will be as churchless as South America! 23

Consider! 1889   1 church for every   3,730 people 1930   1 church for every   5,200 people Now   1 church for every   12,000 people Characteristics Northeast- Heavy Catholic, Congregational influence and an intellectual approach to religion. South- Heavy Baptist and Methodist influence.   However the Bible Belt has lost its belt buckle! MidWest- Heavy Lutheran and sections of Catholic influence. West- Grab bag religious influences. 24

ABOUT OUR COUNTRY Area: 9,529,000 sq.km.   3rd largest in area & population. Population: 258,204,000 in 1995.   Pop. density of 27/sq. km. Peoples: A nation of immigrants with a great diversity.   There are approx. 670,000 legal immigrants annually, and over 700,000 illegal immigrants. Native Americans 0.8%.   Major groups:    Amerindians 1,760,000 in 266 ethnic    groups.   Hawaiian 200,000; Polynesians in    Hawaii.   Eskimo 37,000 in Alaska.   Aleut    2,000 in the Alaskan Aleutian Islands. Euro-American 70.5%.   German 20%, Irish    17%, English 16%, Scots 7%; Other 10.5%. Afro-American 12.1%.   Most of their    forebears came to America as slaves.    Increasing immigration from Caribbean and    Africa, including possibly 450,000 Haitians. Hispanic 9.4% officially.   Over 25 ethnic    groups identifiable, who all speak Spanish.    Mexican 12,600,000; Central and South    American 2,500,000; Puerto Rican    2,300,000; Cuban 1,100,000; Other    1,600,000.   Also Portuguese-speaking    Brazilians 1,140,000. Asian/Pacific 3%.   Rapid increase in    immigrants -- 42% of all immigrants in 80's    were Asian.   Chinese 1,645,000; Filipino    1,405,000; Vietnamese 859,000; Japanese    804,000; Korean 800,000; South Asians    634,000. Other 4.2%.   Jews 5,900,000; Arabs    3,000,000; Armenian 1,100,000; Iranian    900,000. Literacy est: 95.5% (functional literacy 85%). 25

Official language: English. All languages 189, of which 77 are close to extinction.   About 13% of the population use a language other than English in the home. Capital: Washington DC 3,288,000.   There are 44 mega-cities (over one million).   Largest conurbations: New York 17,100,000; Los Angeles 11,640,000; Chicago 7,660,000; Philadelphia 5,118,000; San Francisco 4,623,000; Detroit 4,346,000; Houston 3,468,000; Boston 3,454,000; Dallas-Fort Worth 3,152,000; Cleveland 3,070,000; Miami 2,954,000; Pittsburgh 2,538,000; St. Louis 2,534,000; Minneapolis 2,335,000; Seattle 2,312,000. Economy: A North American Free Trade area is being created between USA, Canada and Mexico.   Unemployment 5.4%.   Public debt/person $14,300.   Income/person $21,100. Religion: Freedom of religion.   No state in the world has been so strongly influenced by Biblical Christianity. Non-religious/other 8.7%. Jews 2.4%.   1/3 of all Jews in the world. Muslim 1.8% (estimates vary between 0.5%    and 2.4%).   1/3 are Afro-American. Buddhist 0.4%.   East Asians. Hindu 0.2%.   Baha'i 0.02%. Christian 86.5%.   Nom 14.9%.   Affil 71.6%.    Growth 0.3%. Protestant 51.3%.   Affil 43.2%.   Growth    0.3%. Roman Catholic 28%.   Affil 21.42%.   Growth    -0.2%. Other Catholic 0.2%.   Affil 0.19%.   Growth -    0.2%. Orthodox 3%.   Affil 2.84%.   Growth -0 5%. Marginal 4%.   Affil 3.94%.   Growth 4.2%. 26

CITIES IN NEED Some of the greatest needs are in the Northeastern States.   For instance, Massachussets has 70 towns without any Baptist church.   Some of the most needy cities in America include... 1.   New York City, NY 2.   Los Angeles, Ca. 3.   Philadelphia, Pa. 4.   San Francisco, Ca. 5.   St. Louis, Mo. 6.   Newark, NJ. 7.   Seattle, Wash. 8.   San Diego, Ca. 9.   New Orleans, La. 10.   Pheonix, Ariz 11.   Providence, RI. 12.   Bridgeport, Conn. 13.   Fresno, Calif. 14.   Tucoma, Wash. 15.   Madison, Wisc. 16.   New London, Conn. 17.   Santa Rosa, Ca. 18.   Atlantic City, NJ. 19.   Salem, Or. 20.   Provo, Utah 21.   Rochester, Minn. 22.   Reno, Nev. 23.   Boise, Idaho 24.   Danbury, Conn. 25.   Pittsburgh, Pa. 27

WHO WILL GO? More than 30% of the world's people live in cities -- providing both a challenge and an opportunity for taking the good news to every people group. Who will go to the 10 largest Megacities? Ø Mexico City, 28 million Ø Tokyo, 28 million Ø Sao Paulo, 22.6 million Ø Bombay, 18.1 million Ø Shanghai, 17.4 million Ø New York City, 16.6 million Ø Beijing, 14.4 million Ø Lagos, 13.5 million Ø Jakarta, 13.4 million Ø Los Angeles, 13.2 million 28

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