JNI 609 - Missions statistics for Europe look quite bleak these days. According to the latest findings, a report by researcher Ruth Robinson of Greater Europe Mission (GEM), only 1.1% of Europeans follows Jesus, which is one out of ninety!

But another study, published one and half year ago by the European Missions Research Group (emRG), a research partnership in which GEM also participates, states that 4.2% of Europeans follow Jesus and are mission-minded. Operation World, the extensively informed prayer guide compiled by Patrick Johnstone and Jason Mandryk, speaks of about 3.5%. Which raises the obvious question: who is right?

"They are all right in some way," says emRG research consultant Andreas Wolf from Germany. "The variations can be explained by differences in definitions and research methodology. Likely the truth is somewhere in the middle."

In this edition we dig a bit deeper into the various studies, the numbers, and the prognoses for the future, including links to the original research reports.

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