Pew Survey indicates that more churches are using the internet
- 83% of those responding to our survey say that their use of the Internet has helped Congregational life
- 25% say it has helped a great deal
- 81% say the use of email by ministers, staffs, and congregation members has helped the spiritual life of the congregation to some extent
- 35% say it has helped a great deal
- 91% say email has helped congregation members and members of the staff stay more in touch with each other
- 51% say it has helped a great deal
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Date: 12/12/2006
Research Examines African American Churches and Their Congregations
- The estimates of seminary trained black clergy vary from 20 to 30 percent nationwide.
- The majority of black rural church pastors live in urban areas and commute an average of over 40 miles to their churches.
- Cheryl Gilkes has estimated that African Americans constitute about 25 percent of the participants in megachurch congregations, both black and white.
- A study of 66 black megachurches were divided as follows:
- Baptist, 46 percent
- Nondenominational, 29 percent
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Date: 12/12/2006
Survey shows that Preacher's Kids May follow in the Footsteps of Their Parent
- In our national sample of clergy, 10 percent of Protestant clergy were sons or daughters of clergy.
- Conservative Protestants have the largest percentage of Preachers Kids (P.K.s) (12 percent)
- Followed by clergy in Historic Black denominations (11%)
- Mainline clergy, with 7 percent P.K.s, are slightly less likely to reproduce themselves by having a child enter parish ministry.
- Preachers Kids (P.K.s) were also significantly more involved in church youth groups at age 16 than those with parents in other occupations 88 percent versus 69 percent
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Date: 12/12/2006
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