 Sawai Chinnawong, of Payap University, Chiang Mai, Thailand, is well known in Asia for his portrayals of Biblical imagery in a traditional Thai graphic idiom. He was the Paul T. Lauby artist in residence at OMSC in  " My work represents influences from many styles...I believe Jesus Christ is present in every culture, and I have chosen to celebrate his presence in our lives through Thai traditional cultural forms. My belief is that Jesus did not choose just one people to hear his Word, but chose to make his home in every human heart. And just as his Word may be spoken in every language, so the visual message can be shared in the beauty of the many styles of artistry around the world. "

 “… the total number of international migrants living around the world has grown substantially over the past fifty years, climbing from about 80 million people in 1960 to about 214 million in 2010, a rise in percentage of the world’s population from 2.6 to 3.1…. Christians and Muslims make up a disproportionate number of global migrants. Christians constitute nearly half (49 percent) of the world’s 214 million migrants, whereas Muslims make up the second largest share, at 27 percent. Thus, together they make up 76 percent of the world’s migrants, even though they represent only 55 percent of the world’s population.”

 Another study confirmed “859 million people (12.5 percent of the global population) from 327 ethnolinguistic peoples in diasporas around the world. [These] results showed that while Christians and Muslims make up 55.3 percent of the world’s population, they represent 72.8 percent of all people in diaspora. In addition, the continuing trend of religious migration around the world is both increasing and intensifying religious diversity, especially in the former ‘Christian West’.”

Multidirectional Christian Church/Mission History

 Five Big Pictures (Review)  Art  World History  Migrations  Mission Movements  Multi-dimensional Analysis  Cf. Jennings’ Childhood Worldview

 Live and serve faithfully where you are and wherever you go.  Live and serve compassionately.  Acknowledge God’s sovereign providence and your own finitude.  Collaborate with all sorts of people.  Be humble and learn.  Share sincerely with others.

 Migrations  Tragedies, Injustices, Inequities  “Lay” Missions

 Denominational-Congregational Initiatives  Mission Agency Internationalization  Diversification –  UPG’s, e.g.,  Holistic Emphases  New and Creative Partnerships  International Networks, e.g., Megachurches  Ongoing Blurring of Demarcations  WCC-Evangelical  Denominational

 Foreign-mission sending agencies 4,900  Foreign missionaries 426,000  Personal income of church members $33,270 billion  Giving to Christian causes $594 billion  Income of global foreign missions $33 billion  Ecclesiastical crime $37 billion

 Missionaries 19,798  Mission agencies 167  Receiving countries 175  Deployment (percentage) by continent/region:  Asia 52.9 Latin America 5.2 Eastern Europe 1.9 Eurasia/former USSR 9.2 Middle East 4.5 North America 9.4 Western Europe 5.0 Africa 7.3 Oceania 1.9 Other 2.7  Deployment (percentage) by ethnic/linguistic focus:  non-Korean 89.2 ethnic Korean 8.1 non-Korean and ethnic Korean 2.7  Member Care Developments

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 Live and serve faithfully where you are and wherever you go.  Live and serve compassionately.  Acknowledge God’s sovereign providence and your own finitude.  Collaborate with all sorts of people.  Be humble and learn.  Share sincerely with others.