IF the world was a village of 100 people, 33 would claim to be Christians; 24 would be Muslims, 14 would be Hindus, 7 would be Buddhists, 6 would follow Chinese religions, 11 would be non-religious, and there would be handful of others. The proportion of the world that claims to be Christian has been much the same for a century or more. However, things have changed during that time:

The Church has spread widely and there are now groups of believers in every country.
The Christian faith has grown much stronger in the Global South. Millions of Christians have been born across Africa and Asia. Many cultural Catholics in Latin America have met Christ in evangelical churches.
In its former heartlands, particularly Europe, the Christian movement has declined.
With almost none in 1900, Pentecostals and charismatics have changed the composition of the Church, now making up more than1/3 of Christians.
The Church has grown despite opposition and persecution in countries like China, India, Sudan, Vietnam, Iran, Algeria, Albania, and Mongolia.
Some of the fiercest persecution has been followed by the largest church growth. The Cultural Revolution in China was a deadly attack on all religions. Fifty years later, around 100 million Chinese have joined the Church, the greatest turning to the Christian faith in history so far.
In the last thirty years, thousands of people have turned to Christ in Muslim regions. This has never happened before.

Father, we praise You for moving and working toward global change! Whatever this year brings, we can pray to King Jesus: Your Kingdom come!

Father, thank You for participants in Link Training this week. These participants desire to be Your servants who GO into all the world. We ask You to move in and through them to make a difference among the unreached.

Team Expansion Worker

Praise the Lord with C and I in Eastern Europe for all those generously blessing their family with borrowed cars and places to stay while they were in the U.S.
Continue to pray for a smooth transition for daughter Darija as she adjusts to a new chapter in her life in the U.S. far from her family.
Praise God for the media summit which took place last week. Thank God for all those who helped to make it a success.

Pray for More Workers

Lord of the Harvest, thank You for new workers going through training and preparation to be sent out to unreached peoples. Father, work through them to spread Your message rapidly and call people to honor Your Word by following Jesus, being baptized and gathering into simple churches.

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