2000 To Present
Main article: Christianity in the 21st century See also: Timeline of Christianity#21st century- 2000 - Asia College of Ministry (ACOM), a ministry of Asia Evangelistic Fellowship (AEF), was launched by Jonathan James, to train national missionaries in Asia.
- 2001 - New Tribes Missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham are kidnapped in the Philippines by Muslim terrorist group; Baptist missionary Roni Bowers and her infant daughter are killed when a Peruvian Air Force jet fires on their small float-plane. Though severely wounded in both legs, missionary pilot Kevin Donaldson landed the burning plane on the Amazon River.
- 2003 - Publication of Back To Jerusalem Called to Complete the Great Commission - Three Chinese Church Leaders with Paul Hattaway brings Chinese and Korean mission movement to forefront; Coptic priest Fr. Zakaria Botros begins his television and internet mission to Muslims in North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and western countries, resulting in thousands of conversions.
- 2004 - Four Southern Baptist missionaries are killed by gunman in Iraq
- 2006 - Abdul Rahman, an Afghan Christian convert, is forced out of Afghanistan by local Muslim leaders and exiled to Italy. Missionary Vijay Kumar is publicly stoned by Hindu extremists for Christian preaching.
- 2007 Kriol Bible completed, the first translation of the entire Bible into an Australian indigenous language Youth Missions International (Washington) (YMI) was founded by Brian Hughes to train churches and teens in the United States to do evangelism locally, regionally, and internationally.
2010- PCA has set up missions to Blythewood, South Carolina, with over 5,600 converts
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