1.) Hundreds of languages still do not have a New or Old Testament in their tongue. Wycliffe and others do this translation work and they send men, women and married couples, who have spent years learning languages that have yet to have a translation work done out into these fields to work with the indigenous peoples who speak English or whatever the translators tongue is. A check for a mere 10-20 million would pay for all of it to be done in a 10-15 year window instead of it taking another 50-100 years.
2.) Fund REAL preachers out there that preach in obscurity, preachers like Wesley, Billy Sunday and others and put them on national/international television, short wave radio, talk radio and fund them totally thereby replacing the Joel Osteens, Hinns and health wealth of the world and driving them off the airwaves.
3.) Pay for street preachers like Dorre Love, Ruben Israel, etc, and others by the hundreds to go out into the harvest.
I could go on and on...
Ok, so you're saying that Christian missionary work could change the world, given enough funding. Alright.
I think that missionary work might do good in some places, but these backwards people no doubt have their own religious practices already. They may not welcome westerners trying to undo their culture and religions.
There are billions of muslims and atheist Chinese in this world, and they are highly resistant to Christianity. I don't see how missionaries are going to get through to them at all.
There was an anthropologist on C-SPAN today talking about his stay in a village in Papua New Guinea. He said the local children are not learning their ancestral language (instead they speak Tok Pisin = "Talk Pidgin," based on English).
He said the local people are Catholics and go to Mass every Sunday, but have some odd ideas. They think that when they die they will go to heaven, which is located in Rome. They still believe in sorcery and never think anyone dies of natural causes--they are always murdered. They were sure that the (white) anthropologist was a local child who had died at the age of 5 but had come back (so he was really dead). One local man had asked a favor of him--would he take a letter to the man's dead father.
Anyway, it did not sound like it would be worthwhile to translate the Bible into that language. I would assume there is already a translation into Tok Pisin.