Giving
WHAT CHRISTIANS EARN:
Annual Income of all Church Members:
$53 trillion.1
(Annual income of evangelical Christians is approximately $6.72 trillion.)
WHAT PEOPLE GIVE:
Given to any Christian causes: $896 billion.1
That's also how much we spend in America on Christmas.
Given to Missions: $52 billion
That's only 5.78% of the money given to Christian causes of any kind (2022).1
Embezzled: If you are doing the math and realize there is $59 billion missing, this is where it went.1
HOW CHRISTIAN GIVING IS USED:
Pastoral ministries of local churches (mostly in Christian nations): $734 billion (82%)2
"Home Missions" in same Christian nations: $107.5 billion (12%)2
Going to Un-Evangelized Non-Christian world: $51.7 billion (5.7%)2 *This is different than "Unreached"
Money that goes toward Unreached Peoples: Estimated $880 million (1.7%)3
For every $100,000 that Christians make, they give $1.70 to the unreached.
“Until recently, Americans spent more on golf balls and twinkies than was given to reach the unreached.” —Claude Hickman
HYPOTHETICAL OBSERVATIONS:
Evangelical Christians could provide all of the funds needed to plant a church in each of the 7,400 unreached people groups with only 0.03% of their income.
The Church has roughly 3,000 times the financial resources and 9,000 times the manpower needed to finish the Great Commission. If every evangelical gave 10% of their income to missions we could easily support 2 million new missionaries.
SOURCES:
1 Gordon Conwell, Download "Status of Global Christianity https://www.gordonconwell.edu/center-for-global-christianity/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2020/12/Status-of-Global-Christianity-2021.pdf *also: International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 39, No. 1, also World Christian Database, 2015,*Barrett and Johnson. 2001. World Christian Trends, pg 656.
2 Todd M. Johnson & Gina A. Zurlo, eds. World Christian Database. Leiden/Boston: Brill, accessed July 2017.
*see also: Todd Johnson, Global Atlas of Christianity, pg 296
3 World Christian Trends Table. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/
4f661fde24ac1097e013deea/t/61fad19d0bbaad2bcc465978/1643827613106/WCT_Table20-3.pdf
David B. Barrett and Todd M. Johnson. World Christian Trends Table 20-3, lines 23-26, 44, Pasadena, Calif: William Carey Library, 2001
*Experts and authors above have determined this trend holds true today as of 2022. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/
4f661fde24ac1097e013deea/t/61fad19d0bbaad2bcc465978/1643827613106/WCT_Table20-3.pdf
QUOTES:
Just a few years ago we spent more in America on golf balls (https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1113923-50-more-random-sports-facts-you-never-knew), twinkies (https://www.medicaldaily.com/unhealthy-foods-Twinkies-and-7-other-worst-junk-foods-7-eleven-shelf-slideshow-249561), and Halloween Costumes (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2014/10/29/shoppers-to-spend-350-million-on-halloween-costumes-this-year-for-their-pets/).
Used by Permission of the Traveling Team:
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