Independence Day:God's Closeness in Uncertain Times
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The U.S. Religious Landscape Survey by the Pew Forum estimates the U.S. is 78% Christian and about to lose its status as a majority Protestant nation, at 51% and slipping. More than 25% of U.S. adults have left the faith of their childhood for another religion or no religion. Factoring in moves ...read more
Tags: Faith
Christian Book Publishers receive a combined total of almost 250,000 manuscripts during a typical year with some of the 300 publishers receiving more than 10,000. On average about 5% of those submissions get published or approximately 12,000 titles a year. The average first printing of a book for a ...read more
Tags: Books And Literature
Nearly 70% of U.S. churches provide direct health services and 65% provide educational health programs, according to the National Council of Churches (NCC) USA Congregational Health Survey. Only 6.4% offer no programs of any kind in health care ministries. The congregations surveyed have an average ...read more
Tags: Church Practices
Wal-Mart’s net sales for '08 Q4 came in at $106.3 billion, an 8.3% jump over a year ago. Income from continuing operations for the quarter gained 4% to $4.1 billion. Same-store sales at its U.S. stores rose ...read more
Tags: Materialism
While research in the early '90s provided evidence that one's personality could predict job performance, numerous potential problems are associated with use of personality testing. Five former editors of Personal Psychology reviewed 7,000 manuscripts and they found there is very low validity of ...read more
Tags: Workplace Integrity
Packaged Facts reports African Americans in the U.S. number 39 million and their buying power of $892 bn. is expected to exceed $1.1 trillion in ’12. This would be a cumulative growth of 28.4%. Also: 54% of African-American buying power lives in the South while 48% resides in central cities. ...read more
Tags: Business And Marketplace
Expect to lose 1/3 to 1/2 half of your e-mail database every year due to list churn. For many, a significant portion of this churn results from a poorly implemented e-mail address change procedure. Or worse yet, none at all! When you don't help subscribers change addresses, not only will you lose ...read more
Tags: Technology
Churches can now host Super Bowl parties without opposition from the National Football League. The League will not object to live showings of the Super Bowl by a religious organization on a routine and customary basis. The League will implement this ...read more
Wine Consumption increased 4% in '07, while distilled spirits were up 3.2% and beer 1.2%. Distilled spirits sales reached more than 182 million nine-liter cases (their 10th straight year of growth) and wine sales reached 294.4 million cases, the 14th consecutive growth year. After declining sales ...read more
Tags: Alcohol
Nearly 10.4 million U.S. firms are owned (50% or more) by women, employing more than 12.8 million people, and generating $1.9 trillion in sales. Their firms have continued to grow at nearly double the rate of all firms (42% vs. 24%). Women-owned firms, account for 41% of all privately held firms. ...read more
Tags: Women
Church stores now comprise 14.2% of CBA (Christian Booksellers Assoc.) ...read more
Christian publishers preferred Bible versions for their books are in rank order NIV, KJV, ...read more
Tags: Bible Study
Almost 1 in 16 children ages 5-12 in America was enrolled in a Southern Baptist VBS ...read more
Tags: Children
65% of the Builder generation (born '27-'45) are evangelical ...read more
Tags: Religion
4% of Bridgers (born ’77-’94) are evangelical Christians. ...read more
The average attendance of a U.S. Protestant church (adults + kids) is 124. The median is ...read more
Tags: Church Growth
27% of the U.S. population contend Mormons are not Christians. ...read more
87% of people who were Hindus as children remain so as ...read more
Just 37% of people who were Jehovah’s Witnesses as children remain so as ...read more
59% of U.S. adults not attached to a church consider themselves to be Christian, 17% ...read more
Tags: Church Body Of Christ
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