Transcript Slide 1

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Sawai Chinnawong, of Payap University, Chiang
Mai, Thailand, is well known in Asia for his
portrayals of Biblical imagery in a traditional Thai
graphic idiom. He was the Paul T. Lauby artist in
residence at OMSC in 2003-2004.
"My work represents influences from many styles...I
believe Jesus Christ is present in every culture, and I have
chosen to celebrate his presence in our lives through Thai
traditional cultural forms.
My belief is that Jesus did not choose just one people to
hear his Word, but chose to make his home in every
human heart. And just as his Word may be spoken in
every language, so the visual message can be shared in the
beauty of the many styles of artistry around the world."
http://cac-ib-geography.wikispaces.com/Migration+maps
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“… the total number of international migrants living
around the world has grown substantially over the
past fifty years, climbing from about 80 million
people in 1960 to about 214 million in 2010, a rise in
percentage of the world’s population from 2.6 to
3.1…. Christians and Muslims make up a
disproportionate number of global migrants.
Christians constitute nearly half (49 percent) of the
world’s 214 million migrants, whereas Muslims
make up the second largest share, at 27 percent.
Thus, together they make up 76 percent of the
world’s migrants, even though they represent only
55 percent of the world’s population.”
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Another study confirmed “859 million people (12.5
percent of the global population) from 327
ethnolinguistic peoples in diasporas around the
world. [These] results showed that while Christians
and Muslims make up 55.3 percent of the world’s
population, they represent 72.8 percent of all people
in diaspora. In addition, the continuing trend of
religious migration around the world is both
increasing and intensifying religious diversity,
especially in the former ‘Christian West’.”
Multidirectional Christian Church/Mission History
http://www.wadsworth.com/religion_d/special_features/popups/maps/schmidt_patterns/content/map_49.html
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Five Big Pictures (Review)
 Art
 World History
 Migrations
 Mission Movements
 Multi-dimensional Analysis
Cf. Jennings’ Childhood Worldview
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Live and serve faithfully where you are and
wherever you go.
Live and serve compassionately.
Acknowledge God’s sovereign providence and
your own finitude.
Collaborate with all sorts of people.
Be humble and learn.
Share sincerely with others.
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Migrations
Tragedies, Injustices, Inequities
“Lay” Missions
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Denominational-Congregational Initiatives
Mission Agency Internationalization
Diversification – www.lausanne.org
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UPG’s, e.g., http://www.ghana2013.org/uupglist
Holistic Emphases
New and Creative Partnerships
International Networks, e.g., Megachurches
Ongoing Blurring of Demarcations
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WCC-Evangelical
Denominational
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Foreign-mission sending agencies 4,900
Foreign missionaries 426,000
Personal income of church members $33,270 billion
Giving to Christian causes $594 billion
Income of global foreign missions $33 billion
Ecclesiastical crime $37 billion
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Missionaries 19,798
Mission agencies 167
Receiving countries 175
Deployment (percentage) by continent/region:
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Deployment (percentage) by ethnic/linguistic
focus:
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Asia 52.9 Latin America 5.2 Eastern Europe 1.9
Eurasia/former USSR 9.2 Middle East 4.5 North America
9.4 Western Europe 5.0 Africa 7.3 Oceania 1.9 Other 2.7
non-Korean 89.2 ethnic Korean 8.1 non-Korean and
ethnic Korean 2.7
Member Care Developments
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/
http://www.aljazeera.com/
http://www.operationworld.org/today
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Live and serve faithfully where you are and
wherever you go.
Live and serve compassionately.
Acknowledge God’s sovereign providence and
your own finitude.
Collaborate with all sorts of people.
Be humble and learn.
Share sincerely with others.