Dear Family in Christ,
My name is Megan Brauckmann, and I’ve seventeen years old. I’ve felt the call to share the gospel of our Lord and Savior. In the summer I have an opportunity to go on a 4-week trip to Thailand with Global Expeditions. This culture needs the love of God and is full of striking contrasts: apathetic atheists stand beside zealous Hindus while Buddhist temples tower next to Internet cafés. We’ll be partnering with Gospel for Asia and working with seasoned native missionaries in Thailand where Buddhism thrives.
James 5:16 says, “The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results”
I’m praying and trusting God for full support- about $3,500.
400 people who would give 10 dollars would sponsor me to reach the lost for Christ. Please pray about the following statistics and for me and if you feel led to support me in prayer (or to give) e-mail meg.brauck@gmail.com
2.2 billion people have never once heard the Gospel. The faith which we so often take for granted is unknown to 1/3 of the world.
2 billion of those live within the 10/40 window.
1.67 billion people have absolutely no access to the Gospel. No Bibles, no churches, no missionaries, no media, no leaflets, no Christians. Nothing.
29,200,000 people die and go to hell every year.
90,000 people die every day without Christ, and slip through our fingers into hell. Line them up, and they form a line nine miles long. Every day.
50,000 of these people had never heard the Gospel during their lifetime.
35,000 of them had no way to hear the Gospel during their lifetime. Every second and a half, someone dies having never heard the Gospel.
In the time you've been reading this entry, already close to fifty of them have died.
And there goes another one.
This is the state of the world that we are living in.
If it doesn't break your heart, consider whether you have one at all.
Let me quote WorldChanger:
The 10/40 window is an area between the 10N and 40N parallels, which covers northern Africa and southern Asia. 77% of the world's unreached live within this area, and 95% of those beyond the reach of the Church live there. 3.1 billion people live in the 10/40 window, and 2 billion of them have not heard the Gospel. Here are some statistics for you. I hope these numbers break your heart as much as they do mine:
As the Church of Christ, we have the responsibility and privilege of reaching these people. And here in the west, where we have such abundance of resources, we have the biggest responsibility. "To whom much is given, much is required." So how are we doing? Well, to put it bluntly, horribly. The Church has been around for 2,000 years. Yet Coca Cola has been around for a little more than 100 years... and more people in the world know about Coca Cola than have heard the Gospel of Christ. A little ridiculous? Does anyone else see a problem here besides me?? Perhaps we just don't understand the scope of this. Let me put some more numbers to that for you:
3,000 of the world's 6,800 languages do not have the Bible translated into their language.
380 million people speak those 3,000 languages.
1,700 people groups of 10,000 or more are considered unreached.
There are hundreds of smaller groups, bringing the real total to around 2,300.
3 billion dollars is spent on the Christian entertainment industry in North America every year.
0.02% of the income of televangelists would fund enough missionaries to complete the Great Commission within four years.
The Western Church has dropped the ball. God blessed us with resources and finances, hoping that we'd use them wisely to finish the Task that He's given us. Instead, we squander that money on entertainment, on prettier buildings, on bigger toys, on nicer clothes, and on Bibles that we don't even read. Something is wrong with the picture here. We're told in II Peter 3.12 to 'look to and hasten' the day of the Lord. Hasten means 'to speed up' or 'to facilitate an earlier result.' In other words, we as the Church determine how long Jesus has to wait before He can come for His Bride. Matthew 24.14 clearly tells us that until the Gospel has been preached in all the world [the Greek word being ethnos, which means 'people group'] the end will not come. But instead of ushering in the return of Christ, we the western Church are inadvertantly becoming the bouncer at the door of the club, stopping Him from retrieving His Bride. Instead of accelarating the Plan that God has for the world, we're dragging our feet and delaying it.
AND BILLIONS ARE DYING BECAUSE OF US.
For the same reason that Paul wrote in Romans 15.20: "And so eagerly striving to preach the Gospel where Christ was not named, so that I should not build on another's foundation." Paul refused to settle. After all the journeys and mission trips Paul had been on, he refused to sit back and relax. Why? Because the Job wasn't done.
I can never get enough.
Never will I be satisfied or content.
Never will I sit back and say, "enough."
Never will I relax, let up or calm down.
Never will I withhold that which burns inside me, consuming me, and compelling me to go.
I refuse to do nothing about the unreached billions
My life for the Gospel.
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