Mission Offering 2008
• 567,413 new believers in discipleship*
Status of World Evangelization
• 11,573 people groups worldwide; 6.6 billion people
• 6,508 unreached* people groups; 3.8 billion people
• 5,903 Last Frontier** people groups; 1.6 billion people
*Less than 2 percent evangelical
**Less than 2 percent evangelical, no active church planting
Lottie Moon past and present
• 2008 goal: $170 million
• 2007 receipts: $150,409,653.86
• $3 billion given since offering’s inception
• $3,315 collected in 1888 for first offering, enough to send three women to China
• 10 countries; 378.7 million people
• 699 total people groups
• 87 people groups among whom IMB personnel work
• 411 unreached (less than 2 percent evangelical) people groups
• 200 unreached people groups with no evangelical presence*
• 79 percent Roman Catholic**
• 6 percent evangelical
• 3 percent traditional ethnic/spiritist
• 12 percent nonreligious
*No missionaries working with these groups and no known believers or churches among them
**Many of these Catholics practice syncretism – a mixture of religions such as Catholicism and animism – or do not attend church at all.
How much does it cost to support a missionary?
• $.08 a minute
Reported July 2008. Support includes housing, food, children’s education, medical expenses, retirement and more.
IMB budgeted income:
Lottie Moon Christmas Offering – about 50 percent
Cooperative Program – 33 percent
World Hunger and General Relief – 6 percent
Field-generated funds, investment returns and other income – 11 percent
Total IMB expenditures 2007 – $300.4 million
• Overseas missions – $256.0 million
• Missionary support – $214.1 million
• Field work – $41.9 million
• Stateside – $44.4 million
