Who's Missing? Whose Mission?

Who's Missing? Whose Mission?
 
IMB's 2009 theme is "Who's Missing? Whose Mission?" focusing on those still missing from God's family and our Great Commission call to reach them.

Find tools to lead your church during the 2009 Lottie Moon Christmas Offering season.

Who's Missing?
Even after 2,000 years of Christian influence, more than 1.5 billion people are still missing out on the opportunity to hear the Gospel. They are hidden behind cultural, physical, political and language barriers to a Gospel witness.

Many of the world's people missing from God's family live in concentrated pockets of lostness. The pockets we are focusing on in 2009 comprise:

  • About 40 nations and 700 languages
  • 34 percent Muslim
  • 32 percent Hindu
  • 13.5 percent Animist
  • 6 percent Buddhist
  • 6 percent unknown religion
  • 4 percent nonreligious/other
Although there is a small percentage of Christian, the rest are a mix of ancestor worshipper, shamanist, Jewish, Taoist and Sikhist. About 80 unreached people groups still have no contact with the outside world.

Week of Prayer 2009 will feature people groups who represent these pockets of lostness.

Whose Mission?
The Bible says the lost are living in darkness, alienated from God and without hope in the world. But our obedience will give them hope. God calls every church and every believer to be on mission with Him to break down the barriers. Learn the ways you and your church can be on mission to help bring a lost people into God's family.


Who's Missing? Who's Mission? resources

  •  Read a theme interpretation for the 2009 focus.
  • Watch the theme interpretation video, "Who's Missing? Whose Mission?"
  • Order Who's "Missing? Who's Mission?" products
  • View or download maps of people group information, including people groups on Google Eartth.