During the month of August, Claudia and I have just completed a short fundraising tour in Indiana, Illinois, North Carolina, and Kentucky. We have had the joy of visiting a large diversity of churches -- some very small, and very country/bluegrass; others rather large and very contemporary in style. Farm communities and mill towns. Some churches are growing, some are in decline. In most of these churches, Claudia and I had never been to these churches previously -- truly an introduction of ourselves and our work in Europe.
I learned several years ago, it is very difficult to predict the response of any local church in regards to supporting world missions (whether missionaries or projects). There is no correlation between the size of a church and their commitment to missions. But it is usually a good indicator of the church's level of vitality.
If the local church is the hope of the world, then the church must be willing to "speak to the nations" and take on the responsibility to accomplish the Great Commission.
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