Missionary dollars tend to go where the church is

Missionary dollars tend to go where larger numbers of missionaries are. Why?

1. the deployment of new workers to a new unengaged place is dangerous.
2. Most new workers don’t make it past two years. This is probably (known unknown) especially true for places with little or no existing support structure.
3. People who have been there longer have a better grasp in the needs and possibilities and can more reliably generate projects with demonstrable ROI and execute them. This tends to attract donor money.
4. More people means more possible connections, more available skills to exploit opportunities, more chances to generate projects that will attract money and more People.
5. More people means an established set of relationships and essentially a working farm generating fruit no one wants to abandon which means more effort to generate patrons of the farm: to expand the farm with new needs and ability to meet those needs. Ever greater projects successfully executed means ever greater stories and ever greater investments.