Lottie Moon Fast Facts

International Mission Board vital stats

• 5,148 missionaries (as of 7/17/07)
• 23,486 new churches*
• 475,072 baptistms*
• 590,890 new believers in discipleship*
  *As reportedin the 2006 Annual Statistical Report

Status of World Evangelization

• 11,362 people groups worldwide; 6.6 billion people
• 6,494 unreached* people groups; 3.6 billion people
• 5,900 Last Frontier** people groups; 1.6 billion people
  *Less than 2 percent evangelical
  **Less than 2 percent evangelical, no active church planting

Lottie Moon past and present

• 2007 goal:$165 million
• 2006 receipts:$150,178,098.06
• $2.8 billion given since offering's inception
• $3,315 collected in 1888 for first offering, enough to send three women to China

Former Soviet Union focus

• 15 nations; 284.1 million people
• 387 total people groups
• 49 people groups among whom IMB personnel work
• 306 Last Frontier people groups
• 9 people groups with no access to the Gospel
• 50 percent Christian (nonevangelical)
• 24 percent Muslim
• 22 percent nonreligious

How much does it cost to support a missionary?

• $40,866.61 a year
• $3,405.55 a month
• $785.90 a week
• $111.96 a day
• $4.66 an hour
• $.08 a minute
  Support includes housing, food, children's education, retirement and more.

IMB budgeted income 2007:
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering - 52 percent
Cooperative Program - 36 percent
Investment income - 6 percent
Hunger, relief and other income - 6 percent

Total IMB expenditures 2006
-$282.2 million

• Overseas missions $244.0 million
  -Missionary support - $202.2 million
  -Field work $41.8 million
• Stateside - $38.2 million