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The Average U.S. Pastor has received continuing education on 3.6 different topics during the last two years. Ellison Research finds even though most ministers have gone through seminars or classes, 36% say their church doesn’t budget for it, and the average church that does so allocates just $1,504 ...read more
Tags: Church General
Kids Online: About 90% of U.S. children and adolescents ages 5-17 use computers, and about 60% use the Internet. About 25% of 5-year-olds use the Internet, and this number rises to over 50% by age 9, and to at least 75% by ages 15-17. ...read more
Tags: Children
Lives Molested: A new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention surprisingly discovered that 16% of adult men were sexually molested as children and that 38% of the perpetrators were female. 25% of adult women reported being molested, 94% of the time by males. Molestation victims ...read more
Total estimated U.S. charitable giving reached $248.52 billion for ‘04 — a new record for philanthropic giving. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Giving General
Where Evangelicals Live: 7% of the U.S adult population (15 million people) is evangelical. Little Rock has the highest percentage of evangelicals (22%) of all large U.S. metro areas. Los Angeles has more evangelicals than New York, Chicago and Boston areas combined! A new Barna Group report shows ...read more
Tags: Character
86% of U.S. consumers have reduced the amount of time they spend shopping in the past 5 years. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Finding Fulfillment
Greeting Card Market Data • 86% of the U.S. population buys greeting cards. 80% of shoppers will need a card in the next two weeks. • 91 million U.S. households buy greeting cards. • The average Christian consumer has purchased more than 4 cards in the last 3 months. • Every card ...read more
33% of U.S. born-again Christians say it is impossible for them to get ahead in life because of financial debt. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Money
The U.S. Census claims from ‘96 to ‘00 there was a tenfold increase in unmarried couples living together. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Marriage General
52% of U.S. abortions are performed on women aged 25 or younger. (Foster Letter ...read more
Tags: Abortion
Motivate: Half of all companies use cash awards to motivate employees according to a National Employee Recognition Assoc. 83% used special events, 74% gift cards and 64% ...read more
Tags: Workplace Evangelism
The number of working women in the U.S. has more than doubled in the last 30 years, to 60 million. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Women
Last year, U.S. financial institutions collected $37.8 billion in account service charges, more than double of ’94. ...read more
Abortion Down: In ’02, 14% of births by U.S. women of childbearing age were unwanted vs. just 9% in ’95, report federal researchers. In ’95, for every 100 pregnancies that ended in abortion or birth, almost 26 ended in abortion, in ’04 that had dropped to 24, ...read more
As of July 1, the U.S. population was at 296.4 million, but it may hit 300 million in ‘07. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Evangelism Urgency
In the U.S 50% of first marriages and more than 60% of second marriages end in divorce. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Divorce
The U.S. government plans to invest a record $120 million in abstinence education this year (2003). (Foster ...read more
Tags: Sexuality
Wal-Mart will require 100 key suppliers to use radio frequency identification (RFID) to track pallets of goods through its supply chain by 1/05. RFID involves a chip with an antenna that, when activated by a reader can send or receive information. The industry is on ...read more
Dollar Shoppers: 62% of U.S. households shopped at a dollar store last year, up from 52% in ’99 reports ACNielson. The typical dollar shopper is the female head of a 3-4-member household with an ...read more
Late-Age Divorce is a growing trend in the U.S., according to U.S. Census Bureau’s statistics. The number of senior citizens getting a divorce has risen 34%--the equivalent of 2.2 million people--from ...read more