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LMC INTERNATIONAL CHRISTMAS OFFERING

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Jesus has commissioned us to be His heart, His hands, His voice. Through praying, giving and going, Southern Baptists have fulfilled this legacy for more than 160 years.

Yet, billions remain lost and time may be running out for them. We must pray more intentionally and give more sacrificially than ever before. Our churches must take direct responsibility for helping reach the nearly 3,800 unengaged, unreached people groups that missionaries may never be able to get to.

And, since most unreached people groups likely are represented in the world’s urban centers, we have unique challenges and opportunities to reach the world through the cities.

What can you do? If you are a pastor or missions leader, you can lead your church to own the Great Commission as never before, to be an extension of His heart, hands and voice through praying, serving and unprecedented giving to engage the remaining people groups without access to the Gospel.

Individually and together, we are Southern Baptist missions!

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Here’s a global snapshot of the work ahead of us:

3,724 people groups are not engaged at all with the Gospel (as reported April 2010)
6,426 unreached people groups (those with less than 2 percent of people who profess to have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ; as reported July 2009)
1.7 billion with little or no access to the Gospel
1.5 billion Muslims – 22 percent of the world’s population
950 million Hindus in the world
Christian witness among China cities less than 1 percent
3 percent evangelical believers among Ethiopia’s 82 million people
355 million in South America do not know Christ
Less than 1 percent Christian among more than 270 million living in the Central Asia region
650,000 Lezghi in the Causcasus Mountains fear evil spirits
97 percent of all Palestinians are Muslim
89 percent of North African and Middle Eastern people groups are unreached
311 people groups in India have no known evangelical believers
Only 1,600 believers among 1.6 million Muong of Northern Vietnam

A little overwhelming isn’t it?

The task is doable, but it will take all of us – our churches, our missionaries, our national partners, our Great Commission partners.

Are we there yet? Not quite. But we’re on our way.

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