Cost

Description

Global Missions

$330,000,000

Sponsor 150,000 new indigenous missionaries and pastors in nations most closed to foreign religious workers

$2,200,000,000

Triple
the resources being spent by all global Christians on Bible
translating, printing, and distribution to provide Bibles in the native
languages of the 2,737 remaining people groups currently without Bible
translations

$350,000,000

Provide
50,000 needs-based scholarships of $7,000 each per year for deserving
Christian seminary and Bible school students in Africa, Asia, and Latin
America

$30,000,000

Translate
into four different languages (Spanish, Portugese, Chinese, Japanese),
publish, and distribute 20,000 copies of 100 new titles per year of the
best English-language Christian books for reading in Asia, Africa, and
Latin America

$120,000,000

Hire
1,500 new Christian ministers to work in hospitality, evangelism, and
discipleship with foreign students studying in U.S. universities

$9,000,000

Finance
the organizational infrastructure of a major Christian research and
advocacy organization fighting against contemporary economic and sexual
slavery worldwide

$75,000,000

Provide funds to help build, expand, or upgrade 75,000 church and ministry buildings in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

$9,000,000

Finance
the organizational infrastructure of a major Christian research and
advocacy organization fighting for religious freedoms worldwide

$95,000,000

Finance 350 new Christian radio stations broadcasting Christian programming into the least evangelized regions of the world

$50,000,000

Finance
1,000 new interreligious study groups and travel tours per year to
promote grass-roots mutual understanding and communication,
particularly between Christians and Muslims around the world

$1,000,000,000

Quadruple the total resources being spent by all Christians globally on missions to evangelize the unevangelized world

Global Development and Relief

$2,000,000,000

Finance
5,000,000 grass-roots, micro-enterprise economic development projects
per year in poor countries worldwide that employ revolving loan funds
for needy entrepreneurs to purchase tools, materials, and equipment to
start or expand micro businesses, which they pay back as their
businesses grow

$500,000,000

Completely close the funding gap on resources needed by the current global campaign to eradicate polio worldwide before 2010

$2,000,000,000

Fund
1,000,000 new clean water, well-drilling projects per year in the
poorest nations (25% of the world's population drinks unsafe water),
dramatically improving the health of tens if not hundreds of millions
of people per year

$1,000,000,000

Finance 10,000 comprehensive faith-based programs of AIDS/HIV prevention, education, and medication in sub-Saharan Africa

$3,900,000,000

Provide full resources needed for a global campaign to prevent and treat malaria worldwide

$2,000,000,000

Supply 1 heifer or 4 hogs (as needed and appropriate) to 4,000,000 needy Christian or other families worldwide per year

$4,550,000,000

Provide food, clothing, and shelter to all 6,500,000 current refugees in all of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East

$9,000,000

Finance
the organizational infrastructure of a major Christian think-tank and
advocacy organization working on creative means to reduce poverty and
hunger worldwide

$480,000,000

Quadruple the current annual operating budget of Habitat for Humanity

$1,600,000,000

Double the current annual operating budget of World Vision, which serves 100 million people in 96 nations

$200,000,000

Boost
funding to Christian organizations worldwide that provide free and
subsidized eye exams, vision care, glasses, limb braces, and
prosthetics to 1,000,000 of the poorest and neediest people of the world

$10,000,000,000

Sponsor 20 million needy children worldwide through Christian organizations providing them food, education, and healthcare

$810,000,000

Quadruple all resources currently being spent by all Christians globally on medial missions work

U.S. Christian Ministry and Church Finance

$750,000,000

Hire 10,700 new Christian youth ministers to evangelize, disciple, guide, and counsel U.S. teenagers

$750,000,000

Raise
the salaries of 50,000 of the most needy U.S. church pastors by an
average of $15,000 each, to provide for proven needs and to increase
incentives encouraging the best and brightest young adults to consider
callings to ministry

$75,000,000

Fund 500 new Christian Prison ministry organizations providing evangelism, discipleship, and education to prison inmates

$10,000,000

Translate
into English 200 per year of the best Christian articles and books by
foreign language writers for publication and sale in the United States
and other English-speaking nations

$1,800,000,000

Finance
the refitting of the heating, cooling, and electrical systems of 20,000
of the most desperate and inefficient U.S. church buildings per year,
including the installation (where appropriate, in 1/3rd of the cases)
of new PV solar electric generating systems

$1,100,000,000

Fund
5,500 new Family Counseling and Support organizations in the United
States and major cities worldwide to bring affordable Christian support
and counseling to families, marriages, and individuals in trouble

$4,000,000,000

Hire
50,000 new, trained, church-based adult Christian educators for the
re-education of U.S. Christians in theology, discipleship, and ministry

$9,000,000

Finance
the organizational infrastructure of a major Christian think-tank
working on Christian perspectives and moralities of new biotechnologies
and emerging medial ethics

$9,000,000

Finance
the organizational infrastructure of a major Christian research and
training center addressing Christian views on mass media and media
production and consumption

$3,375,000,000

Provide
the hiring of 45,000 church-based U.S. ministers to the elderly whose
mission would be to provide Christian friendship, care, and support to
millions of the most isolated, abandoned, disabled, and lonely aging
Americans in their homes, nursing homes, or apartments

$75,000,000

Launch
300 cross-race immersion programs around the United States to provide
Christians opportunities to live for 2 weeks in different race
environments, to learn and build relationships toward more profound
racial reconciliation

U.S. Economic Stewardship & Diaconal Ministry

$150,000,000

Provide
financial and debt management training to 200,000 U.S. Christians per
year who are deeply in debt, to help them get on solid financial ground
in order to be able to make positive financial contributions in the
future

$100,000,000

Provide church-based jobs training and career counseling to 100,000 unemployed or welfare-dependent Americans per year

$50,000,000

Finance
25 new U.S. regional faith-based organizations that would provide
assistance and subsidies to pay heating and utilities bills to the most
needy of the poor and elderly in the United States

U.S. Christian Educational and Scholarship Development

$15,000,000

Pay down the mortgages of 500 Christian middle and high schools by $30,000 each to reduce debt burden and interest payments

$150,000,000

Provide needs-based scholarships of $15,000 each per year for 10,000 needy U.S. Christian college students

$45,000,000

Provide needs-based scholarships of $15,000 each per year for 3,000 needy Christian seminary students preparing for ministry

$12,000,000

Provide
research and writing fellowships to 150 of the best Christian scholars
per year to work on scientific and humanities scholarship informed by
Christian perspectives that holds promise for influencing higher
education and academic scholarship

$202,000,000

Provide
101 $2 million contributions per year to Christian seminaries, divinity
schools, colleges, and Bible schools for building campaigns, capital
improvements, endowment building, or other demonstrated needs

$6,000,000

Provide graduate school scholarships for 300 of the most promising Christian Ph.D. students per year in various fields of study

$46,000,000,000

= GRAND TOTAL