2023 Year in Review
By the Grace of God, FMI has been able to Facilitate, Mobilize, and Inspire the next generation of church planters and disciple-makers. What has been the ministry fruit of our 115 partners in the past year?
21,973 +
People Came to Faith in Christ
109
New Churches Launched
20,860
Bibles Distributed in local languages*
295
Ministry Sites Pastored
4x
More audio Bibles distributed**
100%
Vetted Indigenous Partners
What did FMI’s 2023 Look Like?
It is by God’s Grace that FMI was able to Facilitate, Mobilize, and Inspire indigenous church planters and disciple-makers.
Ministry Fruit
21,973+ people placed their faith in Jesus Christ for salvation through the ministry of 115 FMI partners across the ministry sites (most pastors are shepherding more than one ministry site!). This was a 78% increase over last year!
Bible Distribution
More than 20,000 Bibles were distributed by our partners in *18 different languages: Akamba, Bahasa Indonesian, Bangla, Chakma, Dari, Ekegusii, English, Farsi/Persian, Javanese, Kalenjin, Kiswahili, Luo, Masai, Pashto, Rakhine, Tripura, Turkish, Urdu
Audio Scripture**
The distribution of audio formats of Scripture, such as mp3 devices and micro-SD cards, have more than quadrupled over the previous year!
Most of FMI’s fields of partnership fall within the World Watch List’s Top 50 Countries where persecution of Christians is most severe. The current rankings, are shown below. The lower a number is, the more severe and frequent the discrimination and physical abuse is.
Find stories, general prayer targets, and background on the driving force behind the persecution in the various countries below: