Pastor Tim's Corner

Numbers interest me. In fact, there are numbers that are really important. I recently had my annual physical and there were all kinds of numbers that day that were really important to me; blood pressure, PSA count, blood sugar and so on (they were all fine, by the way).

Here are some important numbers that interest me. 67% of the world’s population is non-Christian and 33% label themselves as Christian (only about 200 million are committed Christians). Approximately 2.5 billion people on our planet live in unreached people groups. That means that they literally do not have a Christian even living near then who can tell them about Christ.

Got that? Here are a couple more numbers. The ratio of full-time Christian workers to U.S. citizens is 1 to120. The ratio of missionaries to the people in unreached people groups is about 1to 256,000. Ouch!

One author says it’s as though during WWII we drafted a million soldiers and then sent 600 to fight Hitler and sent the other 999, 400 to Norfolk.

Certainly we need more missionaries, but the fact is that we have missionaries who are ready to go to these groups, but they can’t because they don’t have the financial support they need.

We have World Outreach Festivals because those numbers because those aren’t just numbers, they’re people who need that Savior. You can read more about this year’s festival in this newsletter; it’s going to be awesome. But for now, start planning to be here that Sunday and start praying about making a faith promise for missions. I am, I hope you are too.