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Gallup’s 2005 update of Americans’ confidence in institutions finds the Military is #1 followed by Police #2 and Organized Religion as #3. HMO’s were ranked lowest. (Gallup Alert 6/1/05) 45% of American adults say they read the Bible during a typical ...read more
Tags: Church General
Gift bags account for 33% of the $2.7 billion spent annually on gift wrap products. Tissue paper comprises 12%.(Foster ...read more
Tags: Giving General
Online Donations to the biggest U.S. charities surged 63% last year from ‘03, finds a new Chronicle of Philanthropy study. The 164 groups surveyed raised a combined $166.2 million online. That is less than 1% of the total raised by most of the charities, but the growth will spur more online ...read more
Giving Up: The latest Giving USA Foundation reports ’04 charitable contributions overall were at a record high last year, increasing by 5% to an estimated $248.5 billion. Individuals gave 765 of the total. Donations to Religious Organizations (includes churches) topped all other giving categories ...read more
Gift Buyers: An estimated 10% of today’s $2.6 trillion retail market is spent to buy gifts for one person to give to another. For retailers that means 1 out of every 10 customers in their store has a gift shopping need. This offers marketers, the potential to expand their business by ...read more
Experts estimate there are about one million evangelicals, Pentecostal or charismatic Christians in New York City, most of them from historically African-American ...read more
Megachurch Facts: According to John Vaughn, Church Growth Today, There are now more than 1000 mega-churches (attendance of 2000 or more) in the U.S. vs. just 10 in ’70. Other 2005 megachurch firsts are: A church passed the 30,000 weekly attendance mark (Lakewood Church, Houston, TX). Overall ...read more
U.S. Individuals Out Give G8: The G8 has proposed to cut debt among some African nations by giving up to $40 billion. That is a lot of money, but far less than the $249 billion given to charity by individuals, and corporations in ’04. Of this, $88 billion went to religious organizations. The Barna ...read more
The Presbyterian Church (USA) membership has declined from 4.2 million in ’83, the year it was formed, to 2.36 million today. ...read more
Houston has 9 of the 100 largest U.S. churches in America and 6 of the fastest growing. (Foster ...read more
Atlanta has 7 of the 100 largest U.S. churches in America and 5 of the fastest growing. (Foster ...read more
The Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability reports that the combined income of their 1,177 non-profit ministry members is $14 billion. ...read more
By 2010, married couples will represent a minority of households, they accounted for 51.5% in ’03 vs. 69% in ’73. ...read more
Tags: Marriage General
18% of churches now create their own Christian education curriculum vs. 10% in ’02. (Foster Letter ...read more
Just 69% of churches offer VBS programs today vs. 81% in ’97. (Foster Letter ...read more
Only 58% of churches now offer midweek programming for children compared to 64% in ’97. (Foster ...read more
95% of churches offer a Sunday school program. But just 5% of pastors consider it to be the church’s highest priority compared to 22% in ’02. ...read more
More than 9 out of every 10 churches offer Sunday school for elementary grades (92%) and adults (91%).(Foster ...read more
26% of churches buy Sunday school curriculum from an independent publisher while 52% obtain it from their denomination. ...read more
More Mega-Churches: New research reveals that their may be 1200 or more mega churches in the U.S. rather than the widely assumed 850 count. A cooperative project by the Hartford Institute for Religion Research and the Leadership Network discovered the discrepancy when the two groups, each of ...read more
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