By Shannon Coenen
GOF is quickly approaching a milestone….a BIG milestone! We’re about to become a millionaire of souls! Since founding in 2004, we have ministered to more than 952,000 people around the world and will likely reach that milestone million in the next 6-12 months! read more…
It is heart-stopping to read some of the world missions statistics coming out this past decade. But it adds fuel to the fire for GOF! What you read below explains why we do what we do, what compels us to keep moving forward and why we so deeply value those who join us in prayer and financial support.
GOF is reaching the unreached, planting churches where none existed before and is using 90% of your donations to reach the least-reached peoples of this world!
- 91% of all Christian outreach/evangelism does not target non-Christians, but targets other Christians. (Baxter 2007)
- 90% of international students are unreached by ministries while in the United States. (The Traveling Team)
- For every $1 a Christian gives, less than $.01 goes toward church planting among least-reached people groups.
- Of the more than 135,000 North American missionaries now actively commissioned, fewer than 10,000 are working among totally unreached peoples. (K.P. Yohannan, Revolution in World Missions, 2004)
- 30%, or 2 billion people, have never heard the Gospel (Joshua Project, 2011)
- 18% of the world’s population has yet to have the New Testament translated in their language. (Joshua Project, 2011)
So often we are asked, “Why doesn’t that kind of stuff happen here in America?” The answer is that IT DOES! God is the same all around the world — healing, setting people free, demonstrating His great love & mercy! Let us step out in faith and let God be God because He does great things!!!
You’ve been anxiously awaiting the release of new Bible studies from Dean Niforatos. Now available is a revised 1 Peter study and an all new 2 Peter and Jude study. Enjoy!
