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The World in One Village

Here’s a helpful way to visualize the world. If we could compress the world's population down into a village of 100 people and apply global statistics to that group, here’s how it would look:

Origins: 60 would be from Asia, 12 would be European in origin, 15 would have come from the Western Hemisphere (9 Latin Americans, 5 North Americans, and 1 Oceanian), 13 would be from Africa

Gender: 50 would be female and 50 would be male

Skin Color: 80 would be non-white and 20 would be white

Religion: 67 would be non-Christian and 33 would label themselves as "Christian"

Economics: 20 people would be receiving almost 90% of the village's total income

Housing: 25 would live in substandard housing

Literacy: 17 would not be able to read at all

Nutrition: 13 would be malnourished

Life and Death Rate: 1 would die within the year and 2 would give birth within the year

Education: 2 would have a college education

Technology: 4 would own a computer

Research by Rekha Balu, Christine Engelken and Jennifer Grosso

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Some ExT missionary candidates come to us with an exact city, region and country in mind for their ministry, while others are literally open to the whole world. Where do you fit? Would you like to know more?

First of all, it’s important to understand a few things about how we do missions:

1. FMWM appoints ExT missionaries to one of our four world regions (Africa, Asia, Latin America or Europe) and not to a specific country. Of course, we are very open to knowing where the Lord is leading your heart – that is an important consideration in placing you – but we also want to be clear that in the course of an ExT missionary’s career, there is a strong possibility of at least one reassignment. After all, a missionary’s job is to go and enable indigenous leaders – to eventually work themselves right out of a job!

2. All FMWM missionaries, both ExT and short-term VISA workers, go only at the invitation of the Area Director for their world area and from the existing missionaries and national church leaders. Those interested in becoming missionaries are encouraged to contact FMWM, and we will facilitate the necessary inquiries and arrangements with the field.

3. How big is our box? FMWM traditionally sends ExT missionaries in roles such as leadership development, teaching/training, medical missions, ESL instruction, etc., all contributing in some way to evangelism and church planting. However, we are always open to new ministry ideas and we try to lead with a “yes.” Can we place everyone who comes to us? No, because as a mission, we cannot be all things to all people and are not set up to handle every type of ministry. What are your ideas and might they fit with our ministry? Contact us to find out!

Ready to explore? Click on one or more of the areas of opportunity below and imagine the possibilities!

Africa Asia Europe Latin America Medical Missions

What is FMWM doing in the world? To access a list of countries where the FMC currently has ministry, click here.

International Child Care Ministries is integral to our work on many fields - be sure to visit ICCM's website.

How do you take the final step toward ExT missionary service? Learn more.