Thursday, May 10, 2007

Go Figure!

The following statistics (from Chinese Church For Missions, a Sydney-based interchurch facilitator) makes for grim reading if you're a Chinese Christian living in Diaspora (outside China):
  • Chinese Diaspora ~ 60 million (a population larger than most countries!)
  • Chinese churches in Diaspora ~ 9000
  • Chinese Christians in Diaspora ~ <5%
  • Chinese churches active in mission ~10%
  • Ethnic Chinese Missionaries worldwide ~ 1000
  • Cross-cultural Missionaries worldwide ~434,000
10% of Chinese churches active in mission... A mere 1,000 Chinese among 434,000 missionaries worldwide... This is pretty poor representation by any standards!!

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