E-Flash From Dan, May 11, 2011

Dear E-Flash Friends;

For those of us who love the good news of Jesus Christ, sometimes the nature of the world in which we live can be such that it may seem like things really aren’t going very well.  But, you know what?  That’s not true!

Check out the following quote which provides some interesting and inspiring facts from a recent missionary agency report.  This information surprised me…in a good way!

“One of every eight people on the planet is a practicing Christian who is active in his/her faith. The number of believers in what used to be “mission fields” now surpasses the number of believers in the countries from which missionaries were originally sent. In fact, more missionaries are now sent from non-Western churches than from the traditional mission-sending bases in the West.

“The Protestant growth rate in Latin America is well over three times the biological growth rate. Protestants in China grew from about one million to over 80 million believers in less than 50 years, with most of that growth occurring in just the last few decades. In the 1980s, Nepal was still a staunch Hindu kingdom with only a small persecuted church. Today there are hundreds of thousands of believers, and churches have been started within each of its more than 100 distinct people groups.”

From an article titled, “Finishing The Task: The Unreached Peoples Challenge”, Ralph D. Winter and Bruce A. Koch

Jesus said that He would build His church and “the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18.

God is in control and His kingdom is advancing.  Be encouraged!

Blessings,

Dan