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Information Resources:

Global Church Planting Needs

“This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

by Chris Maynard of Transforming Information www.transforminginformation.com”

Research Progression:

• Data

• Information

• Knowledge

• Wisdom

Definition of Evangelical in this data:

• Jesus Christ as the sole source of salvation

• One needs to have a personal faith in Jesus

• The Bible is the basis for their life

• Committed to be witnesses that bring others to faith in Christ

The Whole World: What God has Done

An Overview

Data for 2010 sourced from Operation World DVD www.operationworld.org and www.joshuaproject.net Prepared by www.transforminginformation.com for www.gcpn.info 2012-05-18 εδθ

W & C Asia

India China E & S Asia

PacC & S America

Europe AfricaN America

the people God lovesevery individual on earth by the regions where they live

And their relationship to Christianity

Non-Evangelical Christians

Evangelicals

“Least Reached” Non-Christians

“More Reached” Non-Christians

The Whole World – Global Gaps

churches planted

(and where they are not)By [email protected]

churches planted

(and where they are not)By [email protected]

Image: NASA

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World Average >A Little Worse

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2,400

Double the Average > 4,800

Half the Average > 1,200

Population per Evangelical Church

The Global Average is 2,400

Map Colours:

the churches plantedthere is a divide

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Population per Evangelical Church

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A Little Better

Much Better

Much Worse

The underchurched North averages 9,000 people for each evangelical church

About 400,000 churches for 4 billion people

The churched South averages 1,200 people for each evangelical church

About 2.5 million churches for 3 billion people

Evangelical churches estimated by Chris Maynard (www.transforminginformation.com) from denominational data for 2010 in Operation World DVD www.operationworld.org Data mapped by worldmap.org This chart prepared by Chris Maynard for www.gcpn.info 2012-05-08

the churches plantedthere is a divide

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NOT the EquatorEvangelical churches estimated by Chris Maynard (www.transforminginformation.com) from denominational data for 2010 in Operation World DVD www.operationworld.org Data mapped by worldmap.org This chart prepared by Chris Maynard for www.gcpn.info 2012-05-08

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www.gcpn.info Base data from Operation World DVD 2010

Interpretation by Chris Maynard 2011-01-27

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Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

Information available for download:

www.gcpn.info/index.php/church-

planting-needs“The Whole World: What God has Done” “Data for 2010

sourced from Operation World DVD www.operationworld.org and www.joshuaproject.net All images sourced from commons.wikimedia.org”.