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Fast Facts about Nazarene Missions 
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The Church of the Nazarene ministers in 156 world areas.*
   
702 missionaries and 184 missionary kids were deployed from 36 world areas in 2010 (including 284 Mission Corps volunteers).*
   
9,576 volunteers participated in mission in 2010. In addition to Mission Corps, there were 245 individual volunteers, 537 Work & Witness teams, and 92 Youth in Mission and university-age participants.
   
Churches in global mission areas numbered 21,120 churches (an increase of 9.7%) with 1.4 million members (an increase of 8.5%) in those areas.*
   
439 districts have been established around the world with 24,504 clergy.*
   
5 graduate seminaries, 32 undergraduate Bible/theological colleges, 13 liberal arts institutions, 3 nurses training colleges, and 1 education college had a 2010 combined enrollment of 30,936 residential students and 18,612 extension students globally.*
   
People were treated at more than 60 medical clinics and hospitals and thousands of compassionate ministry centers.*
   
345 retired missionaries received pensions.*
   
In 2010, 288 literature projects were completed with an average of 5.5 books per week.*
   
Global Mission DVD was distributed and JESUS Film infrastructure continues to be established globally.*
   
NMI partnered with pastors, church boards, Global Mission, and Stewardship to help churches raise funds for the World Evangelism Fund during the 2010 fiscal year (FY): US $44,123,911 compared to US $45,906,503 during FY 2009.*
   
Churches globally gave US $25,123,911 for Approved Mission Specials.
   
WEF giving beyond (formerly “overpayment”) was US $1,433,979, an increase of US $72,513 (or 5%) over 2009 FY. During the 17 years of this NMI ministry, the Church of the Nazarene has entered 57 world areas.
   
Missionary Health Care provided US $506,763 in medical assistance for Nazarene missionaries.
   
NMI partnered with World Mission Broadcast, giving US $437,233 to reach the unreached in 72 countries, 36 languages, and 140 programs.
   
Nazarenes gave US $1,816,655 in deputation offerings for missionaries, a decrease of US $507,418 (or -21.8%) from FY 2009.
   
NMI generated US $231,335 through LINKS, a vital personalized connection between churches and missionaries around the world.
   
Nazarenes gave US $2,781,658 for Alabaster to fund 258 construction projects on mission fields, averaging 4.5 projects per week. (For a detailed report, Click HERE.
   
International Student Scholarship Fund (NMI 80th Anniversary project) provided 103 scholarships for students to attend campus-based Nazarene theological institutions globally.
   
NMI partnered with Nazarene Compassionate Ministries to give more than US $7 million for disaster response, to support 10,969 children through Child Development. Churches sent 67,771 Crisis Care Kits to Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Mexico, Moldova, Philippines, Republic of Georgia, Ukraine, and Zambia and 13,800 School Pal-Paks to Haiti, Moldova, Ukraine, and Zambia.
   
NMI assisted Work & Witness in raising US $1,722,868 to deploy 537 teams, an average of 10 teams per week. 8,955 participants donated more than 302 years of labor.
   
 
* Supported either directly or indirectly by World Evangelism Fund (WEF).

 
Denominational statistics for 2010
 
NMI 4/2011