1. Secular information

• 1. Population/demographics/urban-rural/major cities
• 2. Economic/poverty/unemployment/public debt
• 3. Languages/ethnic groups
• 4. Education/literacy
• 5. Political

2. Religious information

• 1. Religions groups – size, sub-categories (Sunni, Shi’a, etc), growth rates, quality of faith (degree of nominalism/syncretism)
• 2. Religious climate – freedom, proselytism, govt relations, inter-religious relations

3. Christian information

• 1. Mega-blocs (Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant, Independent, Marginal). Numbers and growth rate.
• 2. Denominations (Individual denominations with each bloc) – congregations, members (full communicant adults), adherents (the faith community incl children, etc.), attendance, growth rates
• Post-denominational networks a priority, given the difficulty of tracking and enumerating them properly
• 3. Trans-bloc – What % of each denomination are:
• 1. Evangelical (see Definition here)
• 2. Charismatic (see Definition here)
• 3. Pentecostal (this is a subset of charismatic, and usually determined by denomination)

(Note: Evangelical and Charismatic have no direct relation to one another – it is possible for Christians to be both, neither, one or the other!)

4. Missions information

• 1. Freedom for foreign/cross-cultural mission work
• 2. Numbers of missionaries and what organisation they are with. A number of factors reported for each worker assists hugely in painting a very accurate Great Commission picture
• Majority world workers and direct-sent workers a priority, again, due the difficult nature of keeping tabs on them
• 1. Nationality of worker
• 2. National field of workers (are there Kazakh miss’s in Uzb, etc)
• 3. Organisation with whom they serve
• 4. People group amongst whom they work
• 5. Type of ministry

5. Ministry information – what kinds of things are happening in kingdom work? Bible translation? Worship developments? Indigenous leadership training? Self-reproducing churches? Youth and children’s ministry? Media ministry? Prayer ministries? Aid and development? Holistic ministry? Are certain peoples more or less responsive? Are certain types of ministries more fruitful or more challenging? Cultural trends?

Usually the best way of handling this is to look at the current OW prayer points. What is missing? What is underemphasized or overemphasised? What should be removed or rephrased?