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
