majority of the world’s unreached peoples live. We also intentionally chose to position Europe in a prominent place on the globe because Europe is a critical frontier in missions. As the Rev. Canon Tad de Bordenave, our founder, wrote about last month, unevangelized Muslim people groups are flooding into this continent, creating opportunities for Christians to share Christ with them in a freer and more open environment than their home countries. In addition, European people groups we’ve traditionally considered Christian, like the French and the Spaniards, can now be technically categorized as unreached people groups, which by definition are less than 2.0% evangelical Christian. The French are currently 1.08% evangelical, the Spanish are 1.35%, and the Germans are just a bit above the threshold at 2.4% evangelical. By way of comparison, America is 33% evangelical (source: https://joshuaproject.net/).
God is calling the church to re-evangelize Europe, and as a missionary society that does frontier missions Anglicanly, AFM is praying to the Lord of the Harvest to send more laborers into the harvest field, specifically to Europe.
So, if you or someone you know is sensing a call to long-term missions, especially to Europe, AFM is here to serve and to facilitate the call. While we have traditionally focused on Africa and Asia (and continue to do so since the majority of unreached people groups live on these continents), God is also increasingly drawing our hearts, our prayers, and our efforts to these pressing two new frontiers in missions: traditional European peoples and refugees in Europe.
Two millennia ago, an unnamed European called out to Paul, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” Europeans today are just as desperate for the life-giving reality of a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Whether through praying, giving, or going, we invite you to join us in this mission.
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