127,000 Missionaries sent from the U.S. in 2010. (Brazil is the second-largest sending country overall. South Korea is the second-largest if only Protestants are counted.)
32,400 Missionaries sent to the U.S. in 2010. The U.S. is the largest receiving country in the world.
$1.5 million Estimated annual operating costs for a 217-acre campus in Northfield, Massachusetts, built by D. L. Moody.
$0 Cost to acquire it from the Green family (owners of the Hobby Lobby craft store chain), which is of-fering the site to a Christian institution. The C. S. Lewis Foundation could not raise the $3 million it planned to use for a college there.
With corporate consolidation in worship music, more entities are invested in the songs sung on Sunday mornings. How will their financial incentives shape the church?