Unevangelized: In 2007, 1.9 billion people worldwide (28% of the population) had yet to hear the message of the gospel.10
Lost: Two-thirds of people alive today do not know the Savior of mankind. This includes 1.35 billion Muslims, 888 million Hindus, 388 million Chinese folk-religionists, 386 million Buddhists, 262 million ethnoreligionists, 106 million New-Religionists, 26 million Sikhs, 15 million Jews, and 154 million atheists.11
Unchurched: The population of un-churched Americans is nearing 100 million.12
Church Attendance: 20 percent of Americans attend weekly religious services. 25.4 percent of conservative Protestants attend a weekly service.13
Poverty: More than 1 billion people live in absolute poverty. This includes 700 million people living in slums, 500 million people on the verge of starvation, 93 million beggars, and 200 million children exploited for labor.14
Christian Wealth and World Poverty: On average, American Christians enjoy an annual household income of $42,409, while 1.2 billion of the world's poorest people must survive on $1 a day.15
The Top Half: In the year 2000, net assets of $2,160 was sufficient to place a household in the top half of the world's wealth distribution.16
Hungry: More than 800 million people go to bed hungry every day.17
Sick: 1.5 billion of the world's people have no access to medical care.19
Homeless: 55 million of the world's people live in caves.20
Uneducated: 121 million children around the world are totally outside of the educational system.21
Oppressed: Oppressive governments deny religious freedom to 2.2 billion people worldwide.22
Enslaved: More than 27 million of the world's people are slaves.23
- source: www.generousgiving.org
