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List of location of congregations by state
Total Mission Match dollars matched
Country List: Location of projects for which congregations in the U.S. have
  received Mission Match funds
Mission Match Goals
Context: Christian Mission Mobilization
Other Resources
Information updated through December 31, 2007

 
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Number of States: Congregations from the following states have received Mission Match funds:
California [1] Massachusetts [1] Pennsylvania [2]
Connecticut [1] Minnesota [4] South Carolina [2]
Florida [1] Mississippi [1] Tennessee [1]
Illinois [14] New York [1] Texas [1]
Indiana [12] North Carolina [2] Wisconsin [1];
Kentucky [2] Ohio [12]  

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Total Mission Match dollars
matched as of December 31, 2007: $86,500

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Country List: Location of projects for which congregations in the U.S. have received Mission Match funds:
Afghanistan [1] Jamaica [4] Paraguay [1]
Angola [1] Jordan [1] Peru [1]
Bolivia [1] Kenya [1] Phillipines [1]
Cambodia [3] Korea [1] Romania [3]
Chili [2] Kosovo [1] Russia [1]
China [2] Liberia [1] South Africa [1]
Czech Republic [1] Malawi [1] Swaziland [2]
Dominican Republic [2] Malaysia [1] Tanzania [1]
Haiti [2] Mexico [5] Trinidad [2]
Honduras [3] Mongolia [2] United States [7]
Italy [1] Nicaragua [1]

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Mission Match Goals: The table below outlines the multiyear income goals of the project. The table lists both the annual goals through the year 2027, and the actual funds raised so far. The cumulative total raised for "Matching Income" in the table below, from the beginning through December 31, 2007, is $153,600.

Mission Match® Goal Table
Year 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2027
Goal 100 200 400 800 1,600 3,200 6,400 12,800 25,600 51,200 102,400 204,800 409,600 819,200 1,250,000 2,500,000 5,000,000
Matching Income 27.8 4.7 9.6 17.8 37.1 56.6                      
Difference 72.2 195.3 390.4 782.2 1,562.9 3,143.4                      
Cumulative Difference 72.2 267.5 657.9 1,440.1 3,003.0 6,146.4                      

The four rows below indicate Total Income, including overhead allocations. Total Need is an estimate including an allocation of 15% of total contributions for overhead. The Difference is for the specific year, and the Total Cumulative Need begins in 2002. Note: For money that was raised through Collectibles and Treasures for Missions¨ from 2004 through 2007, the overhead was 20%, to cover additional listing costs.
Total
Income		 27.8 4.7 12.0 22.0 44.5 67.1                      
Total Need 117.6 235.3 470.6 941.2 1,882.4 3,764.7 7,529 15,059 30,118 60,235 120,471 240,941 481,882 963,765 1,470,588 2,941,176 5,882,353
Difference 89.8 230.6 458.6 919.2 1,837.9 3,697.6                      
Total
Cumulative
Need		 89.8 320.4 779.0 1,698.2 3,536.1 7,233.7                      
Numbers in the table are in thousands of dollars and are current through gifts postmarked December 31, 2007 or before.
The above calendar-year numbers present monthly administrative report information. empty tomb, inc. has an annual fiscal year audit.
"Challenge gifts to Wake the Sleeping Giant, received for Mission Match, are released, and shown above in the Matching Income and Total Income lines, when the Challenge details are completed."

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Context: Christian Mission Mobilization
Mission Match is a grassroots, bottom up effort to increase missions giving through historically Christian congregations in the United States.

An effort to encourage a top down effort to increase missions giving, through historically Christian congregations in the United States, is considered in Five Mobilization Questions.

The Antioch Presbyterian Church in Chonju, South Korea, has set a gold standard for missions giving. At its founding in 1985, the congregation committed to giving at least 60 cents of every dollar to international missions. As of 2003, with about 4,000 members, the figure was 70 cents.
The following Web sites present at-scale, Christian mission mobilization efforts.

Rick Warren's Saddleback Church P.E.A.C.E. Plan has the stated goal of addressing "global giants."

Gospel for Asia has the goal of increasing Gospel for Asia's number of native missionaries to 100,000.

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Other Resources

The Scriptural Mandate for Giving

The Potential of Church Giving in the U.S.A.

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