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Multicultural marriages now account for 1 in 15 marriages in the U.S. vs. just 1 in 23 in ’90. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Marriage General
Is Spiritually Passing On? A new Barna Group study finds 62% of Americans consider themselves to be deeply spiritual, unchanged n the past decade. Yet, the younger a person is, the less likely they are to claim to be deeply spiritual. In fact only 4% of Mosaics made such a claim compared to 55% of ...read more
Tags: Disciplines General
Within 2 hours after leaving a church service, the typical individual cannot recall the theme of the sermon they heard. ...read more
Tags: Church General
Using a cell phone while driving — even a hands-free one — quadruples the risk of getting into a serious crash. (Foster ...read more
Tags: Communication General
Do Not Offend visitors to your website. A new Hostway, Inc survey reports 93% of web users do not like pop-up ads, 59% view moving text as bothersome, and 55% are annoyed by certain colors, type fonts and page formats. Other irksome issues are: 89%-the need to install extra software to use site ...read more
Build & Grow: Church researcher, The Rainer Group, reports that 81% of churches experienced growth following a building program. ...read more
Personal Letters of all sorts, or “household to household” correspondence, account for less than 1% of the 100 billion pieces of first-class mail the USPS handles each year. Most of it mail consists of greeting cards, invitations, ...read more
Dramatic Drop: Government figures show the rate of sexual assaults against adolescents ages 12-17 plunged 79% between ‘93 and ‘03, and the number of substantiated sex-abuse cases involving kids of all ages fell 39%. Crimes Against Children Research Center credits multiple reasons for the decline: ...read more
Tags: Sin General
Tech @ Church: A new Barna Group survey reports 57% of Protestant churches now have a website. 62% use a large-screen projection system in their communications. 56% now rely on e-mail blasts for reaching their people. 62% integrate video content into their worship services, while 61% include live ...read more
Loss Of Prestige: Over the last 28 years, the prestige of Clergy, Ministers and Priests has declined from 41% to 36%in the eyes of Americans says the Harris Poll. Compare this to 56% who view ...read more
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
Tags: Giving General
Why Pastors Change: A new Ellison Research study finds the average American minister has held a paid job in ministry for 19 years and has spent an average of 15.6 of those years as a senior pastor. Typically he or she has been the senior pastor at 3 different churches. 20% change jobs due to a ...read more
Wal-Mart donated $1 million and several secure servers to the Salvation Army to help Katrina victims. (Foster ...read more
The National Center for Health Statistics claims 1.4 million (nearly 35% of all ’03 births) were out of wedlock. ...read more
More than two-thirds of married couples in the U.S. now say they lived together before marriage. (Foster ...read more
The U.S. Census claims from ‘96 to ‘00 there was a tenfold increase in unmarried couples living together. (Foster ...read more
Hurricane Katrina destroyed or seriously damaged more than 1,000 churches. Rita’s toll is still unknown. (Foster ...read more
The failure rate of second marriages is 60%, higher than it is for first marriages. (Foster Letter ...read more
U.S. charitable giving rose 11.6% in ’04 over ’03, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The United Way topped the list with $3.9 billion received followed by The Salvation Army at ...read more
More than 4 out of 10 evangelical adults are involved in an alternative form of church on a regular basis. (Foster ...read more
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