chris and becka warner

I am hoping that these ongoing posts will be an interesting and enlightening look at the global status of Christianity. Statistics are just that….statistics. They give us a rough picture of global trends. They don’t tell the stories behind the numbers, or show the faces of the people that have encountered Jesus. Statistics can, however, possibly open our eyes to change. Depending on what statistics you group together things can look very optimistic or shockingly depressing. I will try and give a good balance of both. In the future, I’d like to focus on specific topics within global Christianity (i.e. poverty, frontier missions, finances, etc.) To start, here are some interesting miscellaneous figures:

33% of the world is Christian (of the 6.5 billion people in the world, 2.1 billion are Christians). This is known as “World C.”

60% (2.6 billion people) have access to the gospel (evangelized) but have not responded. This is known as “World B.”

27.7% (1.8 billion people) of the world is considered unevangelized, that is, they have no access to the gospel. This is known as “World A.”

There are Christians and churches in all 238 countries of the world (note: this is based on geopolitical boundaries, not people or ethnic groups) There are 50,000 new churches every year, with 20.7 million new believers each year.

There are 171,000 martyrs for Christ every year, with 70 million martyrs since AD 33 (over half of these occurred in the 20th century).

There are currently 38,000 different Christian denominations.

There are 4,410 missions agencies and 448,000 foreign missionaries.

There are roughly 5,957,000 books about Christianity.

The total personal income of church members worldwide is $15. 9 trillion.

71.7 million Bibles are distributed globally each year.

source: all figures from World Christian Encyclopedia/World Trends

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We had a nice time visiting Becka’s sister and her family in Louisville this weekend. We also got to catch up with one of our ywam friends, Danny. It was our first time in Louisville, and though we didn’t really explore the city much, we both thought it had an interesting feel to it. Thanks guys!

  The Perez’s: Heather, Abraham Sr. and Abraham Jr.

 Chris and Danny

                    Well, i guess this is the offical start of earthsedge.org! Thanks to Brock Angelo for making this happen and to Cindy Gall for putting up with me. I’ll pay back the $4.6 milliion dollars eventually. It’s been a whole new world trying to figure this blog/website stuff out, but i’ve really been enjoying it. Becka and i are hoping that this can replace our rather impersonal newsletters and be a much better way to keep everyone updated with news, pics, and lots of other cool stuff!                     ÂÂÂ