- Missionaries: 71
- Mission partner personnel: 56
- Missionaries in 1991: 114
- Mission partner personnel in 1991: 5
- New missionaries who headed to the field: Caleb and Joanna Swart (Ethiopia) and Ruth Estell (China)
- Missionary kids now serving as missionaries themselves: 10
- Countries where Islam is the dominant religion and the RCA has a mission presence: 8
- Miles flown by Africa mission supervisor Derrick Jones: 74,009
- RCA churches that have at least one Partnership-in-Mission (PIM) share: 577
- RCA churches that do not: 454
- Cost of a PIM share: $5,800 (half- and quarter-shares also available)
- Cost of a PIM share in 2009: $6,000
- People serving as RCA volunteers: 31 short-term, 33 long-term
- Work groups or mission teams coordinated through the Mission Volunteer Program: 115
- 2008 donations to Reformed Church World Service in response to U.S. tornadoes, Cyclone Nargis, China earthquake, Iowa flooding, and Hurricanes Hanna, Gustav, and Ike: $925,363.83
- Donations to RCWS following Hurricane Katrina: $1,552,878.10
2008 Facts from RCA Mission Partners
- Church planters and laypeople trained at Myanmar church planting center: 190
- Bibles printed each month by the Amity Foundation in China: 1 million
- Percentage of population in Kurdistan that is Christian: .002 percent
- Missionaries heading to Kurdistan in 2009: 2, if funds are raised
- Patients treated at the Moravian Hospital in Ahuas, Honduras: 5,134
Areas of ministry for RCA missionaries and partner personnel
Cost of keeping a missionary family in the field
The average cost to keep a family of four in the mission field for a year is $122,000. These figures assume that both adults are working with RCA mission partners.
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