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April 27, 2009Map: Evangelicals Around the World
White dots represent evangelicals in a map by the International Mission Board's Global Research Department.
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Fascinating. We are sendng a couple of teams to Africa and China along with Belize and Spain. I think they will enjoy seeing your map. I was surprised by the number of dots in China and the lack in Russia.
jk
Posted By: Joe | April 27, 2009 7:21 PM
To jk: I lived in central Russia for a while and I can testify that evangelicals there are an endangered species. The Russian Orthodox church resists them and has a lot of political power to wield against them. The ministry my family worked with in Izhevsk from 1993 to 1994 has since been completely shut down. As for China, I teach ESL now here in the DC area and it's well known among my fellow teachers that Chinese students are the most receptive to the Gospel, and have been for years. Many Chinese university students become Christians while in the States, are discipled and then return home, ready to spread the Good News. One of my former students has led more than 200 of her colleagues in her university to the Lord.
Posted By: Jinny Brow | April 28, 2009 9:57 AM
Why only evangelicals?
Posted By: Virgil | April 28, 2009 10:28 AM
Fasinating. There is a black hole from western China, India, and Russia over to southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Particularly the Middle East. It's similar to the 10/40 window but really shifted West a bit. I'm surprised by the brightness of Indonesia, where I grew up. That is due to the work of hundreds of missionaries that blazed that trail over the past couple hundred years.
Posted By: Kacie | April 28, 2009 11:16 AM
Why not black dots on a white map? Why is white "good" and black "evil"? I'm just saying ...
Posted By: Steve K. | April 28, 2009 1:25 PM
I am certain that the term "evangelical" in different countries means different things. In many places, it simply means Protestant. In some languages, "evangelical" means protestant, including main-line protestant. Just curious, is the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America considered evangelical?
Posted By: Usbek de Perse | April 28, 2009 4:29 PM
Jim Courson, whose team at the International Mission Board designed the map, says,
Posted By: Susan Wunderink | April 29, 2009 9:26 AM
The lack of dots in places such as Russia, Eastern Europe, Greece and the Middle East should not be cause for Evangelicals to go and proselytize to these regions because there is no need to. The Orthodox Church and her clergy are responsible for the spiritual lives of these people in these areas. Why not let them continue their mission which they have been given for over 2000 years in some of these areas instead of causing antagonizing?
Instead, preach to those who have never heard the Gospel in this country instead of going elsewhere to areas entrusted to the clergy of the Holy Orthodox Church.
Posted By: Chris Palo | May 4, 2009 9:24 PM