
Annual response as seen through the lens of the hardest to reach
The original vision for Global Media Outreach was to give everyone on ear…
The Ministry of Mike & Cindy Skinner
Serving with Campus Crusade for Christ at Global Media Outreach.
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The original vision for Global Media Outreach was to give everyone on earth multiple opportunities to trust Jesus. Our aim has been to attract them with the hope of the gospel, confront them with the truth of the gospel, and get them connected with a trained volunteer Online Missionary. In our founder’s words, we “meet them at their point of need” and build a relationship based on trust in which they can ask any question. We ask them questions, too: designed to surface anything keeping them from wholeheartedly trusting and serving Christ.
We find that the name of our “The Field is the World” letter continues to hold true: the world responds to the gospel like the field in Jesus’ parable in Matthew 13. Only one of the four soils in the parable becomes fruitful. One other soil may represent a person who has come to genuine, saving faith, but has been “choked out” by the cares of the world so as to fail to produce fruit. Likewise, we find that up to 23% of our Contacts reply back to their Online Missionaries who follow the principles laid out in our Discipleship Training course.
The numbers are in for our 20th year of ministry, and there are many ways to slice them. One tool I use to evaluate our outreach is Open Doors’ World Watch List: we’re one of the safest and most effective ways to reach out to the 50 places in the world where Christians face the most persecution. On the most recent version of this list are: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cuba, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Libya, Maldives, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Viet Nam, and Yemen. In 2024, these places gave us 32,727,687 gospel visits, 10,980,352 indicated decisions and 937,999 New Contacts!
World Watch List rank | Country | Gospel Visits | Indicated Decisions | Contacts | New Disciples |
1 | North Korea | 14 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
2 | Somalia | 95,103 | 39,715 | 2,263 | 30 |
3 | Yemen | 910,532 | 389,220 | 20,600 | 6 |
4 | Libyan Arab Jamahiriya | 341,051 | 127,444 | 2,979 | 2 |
5 | Sudan | 239,555 | 96,430 | 5,115 | 1 |
6 | Eritrea | 107 | 23 | 34 | 0 |
7 | Nigeria | 3,465,102 | 1,573,651 | 126,068 | 1,108 |
8 | Pakistan | 3,730,779 | 710,260 | 259,244 | 175 |
9 | Iran | 93,340 | 25,807 | 1,766 | 0 |
10 | Afghanistan | 146,109 | 48,276 | 59,471 | 13 |
11 | India | 4,272,398 | 2,475,159 | 151,507 | 468 |
12 | Saudi Arabia | 10,719 | 4,327 | 218 | 1 |
13 | Myanmar | 15,777 | 15,003 | 221 | 3 |
14 | Mali |
39,321
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10,399 | 336 | 0 |
15 | China | 15,566 | 11,418 | 261 | 2 |
16 | Maldives | 48,136 | 1,150 | 15 | 1 |
17 | Iraq | 950,608 | 445,477 | 8,664 | 1 |
18 | Syrian Arab Republic | 585,685 | 222,364 | 8,070 | 3 |
19 | Algeria | 2,505,758 | 928,664 | 27,707 | 4 |
20 | Burkina Faso | 72,420 | 13,687 | 1,267 | 3 |
21 | Morocco | 675,947 | 162,014 | 8,466 | 26 |
22 | Lao Peoples Democratic Republic | 11,507 | 30,231 | 80 | 0 |
23 | Mauritius | 165,150 | 9,546 | 340 | 3 |
24 | Bangladesh | 691,251 | 400,090 | 4,217 | 5 |
25 | Uzbekistan | 50,610 | 21,170 | 431 | 0 |
26 | Cuba | 909,384 | 168,903 | 13,818 | 41 |
27 | Central African Republic | 38,426 | 5,497 | 986 | 2 |
28 | Niger | 67,855 | 17,639 | 631 | 3 |
29 | Turkmenistan | 4,331 | 546 | 3 | 0 |
30 | Nicaragua | 243,598 | 92,402 | 2,432 | 108 |
31 | Mexico | 774,706 | 129,269 | 7,524 | 5 |
32 | Oman | 46,291 | 1,910 | 63 | 1 |
33 | Ethiopia | 1,134,990 | 286,944 | 63,418 | 527 |
34 | Tunisia | 314,214 | 90,879 | 1,014 | 3 |
35 | Democratic Republic Of The Congo | 1,206,881 | 178,792 | 22,520 | 48 |
36 | Bhutan | 5,324 | 3,589 | 155 | 1 |
37 | Mozambique | 1,239,610 | 169,874 | 29,415 | 184 |
38 | Kazakhstan | 64,500 | 29,387 | 316 | 3 |
39 | Tajikistan | 18,405 | 9,354 | 142 | 0 |
40 | Egypt | 4,038,164 | 1,233,026 | 47,149 | 6 |
41 | Qatar | 28,484 | 862 | 105 | 0 |
42 | Comoros | 23,522 | 3,620 | 181 | 0 |
43 | Cameroon | 475,835 | 60,121 | 7,946 | 41 |
44 | Viet Nam | 9,108 | 19,434 | 50 | 0 |
45 | Turkey | 540,501 | 223,877 | 13,644 | 1 |
46 | Colombia | 1,952,865 | 389,862 | 33,313 | 37 |
47 | Kyrgyzstan | 84,513 | 23,268 | 667 | 0 |
48 | Brunei Darussalam | 99,390 | 456 | 18 | 3 |
49 | Chad | 136,499 | 35,574 | 2,250 |
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50 | Jordan | 137,746 | 43,739 | 889 | 1 |
32,727,687
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10,980,352
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937,999
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2,875 |
It's astounding to see that our Online Missionaries marked 175 Disciples from Pakistan: 30 even from Somalia. “Ejaz” from Pakistan asked, “Is the Jesus God?” “Obax” from Somalia asked, “How do I improve my love in the Lord?”
We hope you had a wonderful Christmas and New Year’s holiday celebration! Luke and Lillian visited us here in Memphis for the first time, and Emily and Matthew also drove up from Jackson, MS. Matthew’s parents from Australia flew here for vacation (“holiday”) and spent several days in Memphis with us before continuing on (with Emily and Matthew joining them) to sites in Alabama, South and North Carolina and Washington, D.C. before parting ways so Ken and Hayley could continue to the U.K. and Italy.
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Thank you for your prayers and support of our worldwide ministry! We wish you all a New Year full of blessings and deep fellowship with God!
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