{"id":294,"date":"2019-03-20T23:58:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T23:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2019-03-21T20:33:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T20:33:44","slug":"learning-about-the-10-4-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/learning-about-the-10-4-window\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning about the 10\/40 Window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/maphub.net\/embed\/48828?panel=1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>&nbsp;By Paola Mora Zepeda<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 10\/40 window refers to the countries located between 10 and 40 degrees north of the equator.&nbsp; Within this region are 61 countries that have the least access to Christianity in the entire world. Most countries are predominantly &nbsp;Buddhist, Muslim or Hindu, though some are dominated by other religions. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I first heard of this term, I was intrigued. Throughout my whole life, I have lived in an Adventist environment. So, it was hard for me to imagine a place where Christianity is almost non-existent. Hence, I saw this interactive map as an opportunity to learn more about these countries and the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) presence within their borders. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-520 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1040-Window-300x116.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1040-Window-300x116.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1040-Window-768x297.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1040-Window-1024x395.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/1040-Window.jpg 1251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The map contains four variables: Population of the country, main religion, SDA church membership and percentage of Adventists according to the population. All of this information comes from data collected in 2016, as I was unable to get more updated results for all four categories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>What I discovered, left me in shock. I was not expecting a large SDA church membership, but I never imagined how ignorant my guesses were. My jaw dropped as I found out that some countries had less than 100 Adventists &#8212; some as low five or zero.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-size: 1rem;\">I know that there are cases where not all church members are reported due to the political strife and\/or lack of religious freedom. But as I analyzed the numbers, I found it bizarre that the building I was in, my school\u2019s library, had a bigger SDA presence than an entire country.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then, when I came across countries with 2,000 members or more I found myself saying \u201cHey, that\u2019s not too bad,\u201d while ignoring the fact that these countries have millions of inhabitants. Yes, 2,000 is better than 20, but the percentage of SDA always remained under 0.2 percent and most did not even reach 0.1 percent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Seventh-day Adventist church has grown significantly in both terms of numbers and diversity, but this map is proof that there are still hundreds of millions of people that have not yet been reached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What do the colors represent?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The colors represent the SDA divisions to which these countries belong:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">Light Blue<\/span>: Northern Asia Pacific Division (NSD)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Purple<\/span>: Southern Asia Pacific Division (SSD)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Yellow<\/span>: Southern Asia Division (SUD)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Pink<\/span>: Euro Asian Pacific Division (ESD)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">Light Green:<\/span> West Central Africa Division (WAD)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ccff;\">Teal<\/span>: East-Central Africa Division (ECD)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Orange:<\/span> Attached to the General Conference (MENA)<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #008000;\">Dark Green:<\/span> Israel Field<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Red:<\/span> Does not belong to any conference<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;By Paola Mora Zepeda The 10\/40 window refers to the countries located between 10 and 40 degrees north of the equator.&nbsp; Within this region are 61 countries that have the least access to Christianity in the entire world. Most countries are predominantly &nbsp;Buddhist, Muslim or Hindu, though some are dominated by other religions. When I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/learning-about-the-10-4-window\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning about the 10\/40 Window&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigating-diversity.jour342.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}