2.1 billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water services. (WHO/UNICEF 2017)

Unclean water and poor sanitation are a leading cause of child mortality. Childhood diarrhea is closely associated with insufficient water supply, inadequate sanitation, water contaminated with communicable disease agents, and poor hygiene practices.

Diarrhea is estimated to cause 1.5 million child deaths per year, mostly among children under five living in developing countries

More people die each year from drinking contaminated water than from the world’s hurricanes, floods, tsunamis and earthquakes combined.

At least 2 billion people around the world use a drinking water source contaminated with feces.

The World Economic Forum in 2015 named the water crisis as the #1 global risk, based on the overall impact on society (as a measure of devastation).

There are over 3 billion people on earth who have never once heard the Gospel. That number grows by the minute.

That 3 billion is made up of 4,381 different people groups, and accounts for 41% of the entire world’s population. (Joshua Project Global Statistics)

It is estimated that only 1% of church giving to “missions” goes to reaching those who have never heard the message of Jesus (or “unreached” people.)

Evangelical Christians could provide all of the funds needed to plant a church in each of the unreached people groups with only 0.03% of their income.

The Church has roughly 3,000 times the financial resources and 9,000 times the manpower needed to finish the Great Commission.

For every $100,000 that Christians make, they give only $1 to the unreached. (IBMR, Vol. 39, No. 1)