WorldMAP Updates

Internet Evangelism and Discipleship with Global Media Outreach

Chris — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:35:01 +0000

Global Media Outreach is a ministry focused on providing a clear presentation of the Gospel in languages around the world. This happens on web pages available through web browsers on computers and smart phones. An estimated 2 million people a day are accessing these sites to learn more about Christ. Through GMO’s tools people are being led to Christ and discipled through a network of online missionaries from churches around the world. Check out more of what they are doing at Global Media Outreach and GMO Maps for visitor info.

Responses and Folloup for GMO websites

Country Profiles

Chris — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:54:53 +0000

Another great resource the World Missions Atlas Project has completed are the country profiles. Created and edited from research at the Seminary level, these profiles cover a variety of issues about the country. Topics include:

History
Christian History
Demographics
Church Details
Missiological Implications (the needs and prayer points for the country based on the status of the country’s state of Christianity)
Other Religions
Government
Society
Language
Literacy
Economy
Land
Resources
People Group Profiles

In order to access these profiles

Click on the country for which you desire more information
Click on the “Missiological Profile” button on the upper left
Click on thebutton for which you would like to see more information
Notice there are two options under “Christian Religion” (Church Details and Missiological Implications)

Unreached and Unengaged People Groups >100K

Chris — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:13:08 +0000

Unreached and Unengaged People Groups are those people groups that are less than 2% Evangelical and have no one working among them. They most likely have little or no resources in their own language and are likely to be non-literates. The International Mission Board, SBC is making use of a free tool from Tableau to visualize their information on people groups that they display on their People Groups website. We here are WorldMAP love to see information displayed in new ways. Click anywhere on the charts or map or tables below to interact with the data. Enjoy viewing this great display of information.

Japan Earth Quake Map

Chris — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:39:01 +0000

World Missions Atlas Project is helping in the relief effort in Japan by supporting and promoting those sites that are helping in the area. You can view updated information on the crisis at International Disaster Response Network. Click here to download the World Missions Atlas Project Map of Japan with Christianity Status by City and the location of the Earthquake. Please pray for the country of Japan. You may find more prayer resources here: WorldMAP Prayer Profile

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The 03/11/2011 earthquake (preliminary magnitude 8.9) near the east coast of Honshu, Japan, occurred as a result of thrust faulting on or near the subduction zone interface plate boundary between the Pacific and North America plates. At the latitude of this earthquake, the Pacific plate moves approximately westwards with respect to the North America plate at a velocity of 83 mm/yr. The Pacific plate thrusts underneath Japan at the Japan Trench, and dips to the west beneath Eurasia. The location, depth, and focal mechanism of the March 11 earthquake are consistent with the event having occurred as thrust faulting associated with subduction along this plate boundary. Note that some authors divide this region into several microplates that together define the relative motions between the larger Pacific, North America and Eurasia plates; these include the Okhotsk and Amur microplates that are respectively part of North America and Eurasia.

The March 11 earthquake was preceded by a series of large foreshocks over the previous two days, beginning on March 9th with an M 7.2 event approximately 40 km from the March 11 earthquake, and continuing with a further 3 earthquakes greater than M 6 on the same day.

The Japan Trench subduction zone has hosted 9 events of magnitude 7 or greater since 1973. The largest of these was an M 7.8 earthquake approximately 260 km to the north of the March 11 event, in December 1994, which caused 3 fatalities and almost 700 injuries. In June of 1978, an M 7.7 earthquake 35 km to the southwest caused 22 fatalities and over 400 injuries

Interactive World Map

Chris — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:00:07 +0000

The World Missions Atlas Project has created an interactive mapping area of their site. It includes a wealth of missions information and data from countries all around the world. Included in the data is:

Global Church Locations
Global City Data
Global People Group Information and Locations
1. Segmented by Unreached and Unengaged
2. Shown with Resource Availability
Global Language Areas
1. Colored by Bible Translation Status
2. Colored by Jesus Film Translation Status
3. Colored by Faith Comes By Hearing Status
4K Omega Zones
Global Population Density

You can access the Gallery of Interactive Projects at maps.worldmap.org.

Where the Church IS and Where it is NOT

Chris — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:19:56 +0000

The latest edition of Operation World has provided an updated view of global Christianity. Data is summarized by religion and denomination by country. The Operation World DVD has statistical data that can be analyzed as well. Our friend at Transforming Information has taken the DVD statistical data with Evangelical Christian percentages and multiplied that by the denominational congregations to come up with an estimated number of Evangelical Churches in each country. This number is likely to be conservative but gives us a good idea as to the number of Evangelical Churches. We here at the World Missions Atlas Project have taken the results and mapped that data with country information. The resulting map is attached. The map is made in conjunction with meetings of the Global Church Planting Network.

Click to Download the PDF of this Map

Praying for Countries and Unreached Peoples on a Large Map

Chris — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:04:52 +0000

Picture a map the size of large banquet room in a hotel. Now picture that the floor of the room is completely covered by a world map as well as a map of your city that is 10m by 10m. You could actually stand on a country with multiple people or kneel and pray for a certain neighborhood. We recently had that experience that will stay with us for a long time.

Watch this video:

Consider how you may pray for a country or for unreached peoples. Create your own prayer time by printing out maps from www.worldmap.org or lists of peoples from peoplegroups.org, joshuaproject.net or etnopedia.org, or finishingthetask.com.

Harvest Media and Partners.WorldMAP.org

Chris — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:57:53 +0000

Harvest Media helped to create a video for worldmap.org utilizing screen shots of the Ministry tracking system we developed. It is now one of the most popular posts on their website.

Check it out here:

You can also watch the video here:

Finishing the Task Google Maps

Chris — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 21:13:21 +0000

The team here at WorldMAP has recently created a Google Map file of the Unreached and Unengaged People Groups that are the focus for Finishing the Task. We have taken the people group mapping project from the IMB and converted the data into the KMZ file format for Google Earth. Then we used a program called KMLer to create the html that would be used to create the popup. The popup contains links to the Ethnologue based off of the language as well as a picture from Joshua Project.

To download the Finishing the Task Google Earth file click here:

Make sure that you have the desktop version of Google Earth to view the file. It can be downloaded by clicking the globe:

Here is what they are doing on their website.

The Task

Today there are 632 Unengaged, Unreached People Groups with populations more than 50,000 who are still beyond the reach of the gospel of Jesus Christ. These 231,000,000 people are spiritually lost and helpless like sheep having no Shepherd. Among them Christ remains unknown, unacknowledged, and unadored.

These 632 are perhaps the neediest of the needy. They are unengaged, which means that no one church, no one mission agency… no one has yet taken responsibility to tell them of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ. The 632 are at the very heart of the unfinished Great Commission task. Can one church actually make a difference among the 632 unengaged, unreached peoples of the world?

With the enabling of the One true living, all-powerful God, one church can make a difference. Will you be one of the ones?

The Vision

To see every people group in the world engaged with an indigenously led church planting movement.

The Mission

To form a global network of local churches, denominations, church planters, and mission agencies that are willing to work together in partnership to see church planting initiatives launched among the 632 Unengaged, Unreached People Groups (UUPGs) with populations over 50,000.

Adopting an Unengaged, Unreached People Group

If you and your church are interested in adopting a people group and commiting to send workers to one of these groups, please visit our “List” page. There you can look up people groups or even download a current list of Unengaged, Unreached People Groups and contact us.

Commit to Pray

You and your church can commit to pray for one of these Unengaged, Unreached People Groups. To commit to pray click here. If you would like to place a link from your web site to the commit to pray tool, you may find instructions for doing so here.

Evangelical Christianity and Translation by City, Town and Village

Chris — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:16:24 +0000

Over the last few weeks a new map set has been completed on WorldMAP.org. The map set includes the same data of Bible Translation Status, Jesus Film Translation Status, and the Global Status of Evangelical Christianity and applies it to the predominant language in each populated place. For each country of the world, the maps portray the actual areas where people live and the resources that are available to them.

Over 25,000 cities and villages are displayed on this map showing the status of translation for the predominant language of the location.