Think about those living on your street or in your apartment building.  Where are their home countries? Or, were they born and raised in your country? Do you have a neighbor from a different nation? Or maybe YOU are living outside of your homeland! 

United Nations statistics report more people living outside their homeland than in any other time in history. Around the globe, over two hundred million people live in a country other than their homeland. Half of these global nomads live in ten nations -The United States, Russia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates, The United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia and Spain. 

Up to 15% of the people living in some of these countries moved there from somewhere else. 

A question . . . how can we use this moving from nation to nation for the sake of the Gospel?  

In our next email updates we will consider ways that WorldView is preparing people to talk to "new neighbors" now living up and down the block.

There are more people living outside of their homeland today than at any time in history. What does that mean to the Kingdom?

1 - In some places, it is Christians who have moved out of their homeland and are now in a land without many Christians. In that case, those who have recently moved in can bring the Gospel with them. The Kingdom grows because Christians from one land share with non-Christians in their host nation.

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2 - Perhaps non-Christians have moved out of their homeland, and they now live in a land with many Christians. The churches established in that host culture become light and salt, sharing with their new neighbors who do not know the Lord.

3 - Sometimes it is Christians from a country who move into communities of their unsaved countrymen. Chinese Christians who move from China often find opportunity to share with non-Christian Chinese in their new host nations.  

4 - There are so many other options! What of the Christians who have left their homeland and who team up with other Christians who also left their homeland? I know Koreans who serve on teams with other Koreans, but none of them have ever lived in Korea!  They got to know each other as the "Missionary kids" of immigrant communities of various nations.

is for all people. These two facts are both powerful, and they are even more powerful when they interact!  Next time you see an immigrant in your neighborhood, stop and think what that might mean  for bringing the Gospel to the unreached.