9 Young people's ministry is vital for the future

a) SMD(IFES) with about 50 groups in the 163 universities, and 1,000 groups in the 6,100 secondary schools

b) CCCI with 116 staff workers in six universities and in churches

c) Navigators with 33 staff in university witness

d) Wort und Wissen, a significant ministry preparing students for university life

e) YMCA, an evangelical association and Germany's largest Christian youth organization

f) CEF, which has 40 staff workers committed to children's ministry

10 Specific less-evangelized sections of the German population:

a) The 'Ossies' (former East Germans) are 80% unchurched and still affected by the years of Marxist propaganda and lies

b) Whole areas of Germany, while superficially Christianized over a thousand years ago, have never really been evangelized

c) Many cities have become extremely secular and spiritually needy

11 Foreigners

a) The AFA (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Ausländer), a fellowship of mission groups seeking to evangelize through a wide variety of ethnic ministries

b) Greater involvement in outreach by German Christians

c) International students, who number over 60,000

d) Muslims, whose numbers have grown, largely through immigration and a high birth rate, to over 3 million

e) Specific peoples for prayer:

12 Christian media for prayer:

a) Christian literature and publishing has grown enormously over the past 30 years

b) Every Home for Christ has a massive, ongoing, nation-wide distribution of Christian tracts

c) Christian radio and television:

d) Internet evangelism has great potential, but needs to be better developed

Religion

Religious freedom.

Churches in Germany

Missionaries from Germany

approx. 4,090 in about 133 agencies with about 3,000 in 150 countries.

Missionaries to Germany

1,531 in 150 agencies from 40 countries

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Geography

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Area 357,042 sq.km. Strategically placed in the centre of Europe and of the expanding EU.

Population (2000) 82,220,490 +0.14%AGR

Capital Berlin 4,150,000.

Peoples

Indigenous 91.1%.

European Union (as of 2000) 2.5%.

Other Western 3%.

Other 3.4%.

Literacy almost 100%. Official language German. There are 110 million German-speakers worldwide. All languages 20. Languages with Scriptures 6Bi 3NT 5por.

Economy

Dramatic post-war recovery to become one of the world's strongest economies, with huge balance-of-payments surpluses. HDI 0.906; 14^th/174. Public debt 33% of GNP. Income/person $28,280 (90% of USA).

Politics

The collapse of Hitler's Reich in 1945 was followed by 45 years of partition between the democratic and capitalist Federal Republic (FRG) and the Communist 'Democratic' Republic (GDR).

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