It will be over 4.5 million in the next 5-10 years!Who
Cares for Ireland?
·
Population – reaching nearly the 3.8 million mark!
It will be over 4.5 million in the next 5-10 years!
·
Cities
o
Only
between 50 and 100 cities and villages in Ireland have any kind of Gospel
preaching church at all
o
There are
over 2,000
completely unreached villages and towns in Ireland
·
Languages
o
95% of
all Irish people are English speaking
o
Who is
reaching the Gaelic speaking people? Over 30% of the irish people can read and speak some of the Irish
language.
·
People Groups
o
95% are
Settled, and live in homes, while the remainder live in campers and caravans, travelling around the
country and Europe.
o
Is anyone
willing to GO and tell the Travellers about a city, made without hands?
·
The Rural Areas
o
Most of
the population are moving to the cities
o
But, how
do we reach the people who have only a Pub for a life?
·
The Religious
o
Roman
Catholic represent about 80% of the population
o
Unsaved
Protestants make up about 10%
o
Atheists
are growing in number because of changes in the world
o
Agnostics
will soon be the majority before they move into Eastern relignions
·
The Un-Churched
o
A growing
number of people in Ireland don’t go to ANY kind of a church
o
These
people will only stay in “limbo” for a while
o
They will
end up in a cult, or just go back to the same old way of life and faith as
before, but with no rhyme or reason to life than before!
WHAT
WE (Including YOU) CAN DO
1. Become faithful here – really faithful: to church, praying for our missionaries, and to giving!
2. Produce fruit here – each one of us, win one soul to Christ this year!
3. Prepare to be leaders – come Sunday evenings, Wednesday evenings, get into Discipleship, and even in the Bible Institute!
4. Step out by faith into other towns and communities as we have done already in Mallow!
5. Support Missionaries in other countries as well (Acts 1:8)!
6. Pray for our missionaries that we financially support