The following information is from "Unarguable Facts." These statistics were gathered by Doug Perry, a Kansas City business man, and are posted on Crossroads: Where Faith and Inquiry Meet at http://fcov.blogspot.com/2004/12/shame-shame-on-us.html.

Perry's Sources: Ad AD 2001 reality check--50 new facts and figures about trends and issues concerning empirical global Christianity today. (From Table 1-1 in World Christianity Trends, William Carey Library, David Barrett & Todd Johnson.)

THE UNARGUABLE FACTS

• 38 countries are primarily unevangelized. (ie. 1.6 Billion souls)
• Assets of the Church:
  
  • US Christians control TRILLIONS in assets while at any given time 200,000,000 Brothers and Sisters starve.
  • This is what I never get. Churches rarely teach on the condition of poor Christians both in the West and in Third World countries. Why? There seems to be so much written about this in the Bible, both in the OT and NT.
  • 78 countries each have Great Commission Christians whose personal incomes exceed US$1 billion a year.
• Financial Fraud in the Church:
  
  • Annual church embezzlements by top custodians exceed the entire cost of all foreign missions worldwide. Emboldened by lax procedures, trusted church treasurers are embezzling from the Church $5,500,000 PER DAY. That's $16 Billion per YEAR! (For reference: TOTAL Christian spending on foreign missions is only $15 Billion.)
  • Criminal penalties against clergy in sexual abuse cases now exceed $1 billion, causing a number of churches, dioceses and denominations to be forced into bankruptcy.
• Wasteful Spending by the Church:
  
  • 95% of all church budgets in the US are spent on our own comforts and programs. Less than 1% is spent on evangelism to the most unreached.
  • 40% of the church’s entire global foreign mission resources are being deployed to just 10 oversaturated countries already possessing strong citizen-run home ministries.
  • More than 90% of all Christian materials are in English, but only 8% of the world speaks English.
  • All costs of ministry divided by number of baptisms per year. Cost per baptism in India - $9803 per person. Cost per baptism in the United States - $1,550,000 per person.
  • 91% of all Christian outreach/evangelism does not target non- Christians but targets other Christians in already-evangelized countries or people-groups.
• Missions and the Church:
  
  • Some 250 of the 300 largest international Christian organizations regularly mislead the Christian public by publishing demonstrably incorrect or falsified progress statistics.
  • It costs Christians 700 times more money to baptize converts in rich countries (eg. Switzerland) than in poor countries (eg. Nepal).
  • Percent of Christian resources in countries that are already more than 60% Christian - 99.9%. Percent spent in countries where less than half the people have EVER heard of Jesus - 0.01%.
  • It is estimated that Christians worldwide spend around $8 BILLION dollars PER YEAR going to the more than 500 conferences to TALK about missions. That's more than TWICE the total spent DOING missions.
  • Everywhere on Earth can now easily be targeted with at least 3 of the 45 varieties of effective evangelism. 818 unevangelized ethnolinguistic peoples have never been targeted by any Christian agencies ever.
  • Out of 648 million Great Commission Christians, 70% have never been told about the world's 1.6 billion unevangelized individuals.
• Growth of the Church:
  
  • The country with the fastest Christian expansion ever is China, now at 10,000 new converts every day.
• Persecution of the Church:
  
  • More than 70% of all Christians now live in countries where they are experiencing persecution. In some cases EXTREME persecution.
• Global Population Issues:
  
  • 124 million new souls begin life on Earth each year, but Christianity’s 4,000 foreign mission agencies baptize only 4 million new persons a year.
• Unreached Peoples
  
  • Out of 648 million Great Commission Christians, 70% have never been told about world’s 1.6 billion unevangelized individuals.