because by 1990 the number of people in the small, unentered nations came only to some 94,000,000. Global Mission, however, shifted the denomination’s eyes away from those comfortable statistics and toward a new way of looking at denominational mission accountability. Rather than focusing on nations, Global Mission focuses attention on the fact that the Adventist message is to go to “every kindred, and tongue, and people.” That approach is much less comforting. Research tells us that as of 1990 there