The 2005 statistical year saw a near-record number of 33,598 people join the Church of the Nazarene in the USA and Canada. Churches that averaged less than 50 in worship received a total of 4,756 new Nazarenes. And churches that were organized before 1940 took in 35% of all the new Nazarenes received.

As church size increases, so does the likelihood that new Nazarenes will outpace Nazarene losses.

• All of the churches that averaged 500 or more in worship received new Nazarenes. The net change in the largest churches—those with an average worship attendance of 1,000 or more—increased an average of 34.3 people.

Most of the churches (63%) in the USA and Canada today were organized before 1960.

• These two groups of churches (1900-1939 and 1940-1959) account for 59% of all new Nazarenes, but they also account for 69% of all Nazarene losses.
• Fortunately, their total number of new Nazarenes is larger than their total number of Nazarene losses so that they do have a positive net change per church of 0.9 and 0.5 respectively.

These people—the Southeast Asians, the South Asians, and the Pacific Asians—are from different multiethnic and multinational Asian groups. They bring to North America their varying languages, religions, cultures, and subcultures. One may come from Christianized Manila, Philippines; another from one of the still-animistic tribal villages of Laos. One Asian may come from the overcrowded Buddhist city of Bombay, India; one from the multireligious modern city of Tokyo, Japan; one from the culturally traditional island of Tonga; and still another from a Muslim town of Pakistan. They keep coming because of the open doors of migration, and the military, marriage, and money-making opportunities under the umbrella of freedom and justice. They become part of the American mosaic and experience the confusing and dividing tensions of religious, social, political, and cultural changes in their new country.

The Dallas Morning News spent several months examining the dynamics of affluent black households in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan region. The News analyzed U.S. census data from 1990 to 2000, comparing the growth in upper-income black households locally and nationally. Reporters interviewed families, demographers, economists and educators, as well as civic, business and religious leaders about the status of black residents in the region.

• Black wealth blossoms in suburbs: D-FW ranks among top U.S. areas for well-off professionals
• The number of black households in the metro area that earn at least $100,000 tripled during the 1990s, propelling Dallas-Fort Worth into the ranks of the nation's leading metropolitan areas for upper-income black professionals, according to a Dallas Morning News analysis.
• Among 28 metropolitan areas with at least 1 million people, and in which at least 10 percent of households are black, the Dallas-Fort Worth area has the sixth-highest percentage of black households making at least $100,000. That places the D-FW area behind established centers of black affluence such as Atlanta and Washington, D.C., and ahead of Indianapolis, Houston and Philadelphia.
• Upper-income black households in Dallas grew 84 percent from the 1990 to 2000 census, but the city's growth trailed both the state and the D-FW region as a whole.
• In more than 20 D-FW-area cities with at least 200 black households, median black household income exceeds the median income for black households nationwide.