Issues Facing Missions Today: 4. Mission Strategising I recall the enthusiasm of a mission committee back in the 1980s as its members redirected their resources and attention to the 10/40 window [the largely non-Christian region of the world lying between 10 and 40 degrees latitude north of the equator] and ‘unreached peoples.’ Here, it was thought, lay the unfinished task to take the Gospel to the nations. Such mission strategising clearly pointed away from ministry in, say, Rwanda, where the statistics reported an overwhelmingly evangelised and Christian country. Just a few years later, the Rwandan genocide took place in ‘Christian’ Rwanda. Such strategising also took the focus away from post-Christian, northern European countries. In this post, I wish to challenge the use of statistics alone to determine mission strategies and offer five topics for mission strategising instead. I’ll be the first to say that I appreciate all the statistics, maps, and historical trends t