Many Charities Give to Others this Holiday Season
- Here's Life Inner City, the urban ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ, International, is sending out some 18,550 food-filled boxes through local churches and organizations to bring holiday cheer to the hungry.
- The packaged "Boxes of Love" are enough to feed more than 111,300 people in the United States
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Date: 11/23/2006
Leadership Network research shows the growth and operating costs for churches
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There are approximately 300,000 Protestant churches in the United States.
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99.6% of US churches have a weekly worship attendance of less than 2000
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There are 1210 churches with an attendance greater than 2000
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Date: 11/1/2006
The College Transition Project reveals why students go to Youth Groups
- According to the College Transition Project, 68 percent of those interviewed said it is "very true" or "completely true" they go to youth group because they like their youth pastor.
- The second most popular reason was "I learn about God there," which was followed by 58 percent who said "It's fun."
- Other reasons listed as "very true" or "completely true" by at least 50 percent of the students included "I feel comfortable there," "I've always gone to church/youth group," "It's a place where I can learn to serve," and "It feels like a real community."
- The least likely reason students listed was that their parents make them go or that they feel guilty if they don't go.
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Date: 10/24/2006
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