21 Feb, 2012
Into All The World
Missions: Most Christian Missionaries Are American
At a church on the New England coast 200 years ago, five young men became ordained as Congregational missionaries and set off on cargo ships to India as the first organized group of American missionaries to travel overseas.
Their departure signaled the start of the U.S. missionary movement, and today the United States sends more Christian missionaries abroad than any other country, experts say.
The United States sent out 127,000 of the world's estimated 400,000 missionaries abroad in 2010, according to Todd Johnson, director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Massachusetts.
In distant second place is Brazil, which sent 34,000 missionaries abroad in 2010, he said.
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- Ask God if there is a specific group of students at your school to whom He may be calling you to live out the life-changing message of Jesus.
- Spend some time reading the Book of Acts this week and take a closer look at the Apostle Paul's missionary journeys that sparked growth in the early Church.
- Ask God what you can do to advance His Kingdom in other parts of the world.
- Does your church or family support an overseas missionary? Ask your family if you can spend some time praying for them today.
- Does your family have a globe? If so, try this each day for the rest of this week ... Spin the globe, Put you finger out to stop the globe, Whatever country you land on pray for missionaries who serve in that country, as well as the people who live there to be responsive to the life-changing message of Jesus.
- Do you know someone who has been called to be an overseas missionary? Pray for them today and send them an e-mail to encourage them in their calling.
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