Florida Annual Conference Analysis

The Church I selected to evaluate is called Parkview Christian Church. Furthermore, both Churches before their inception the founder's sort guidance from God above to reach people for Christ. The concept of the Tinley Park Church of Christ (currently name Parkview Christian Church) originated in 1948 with two women on a train headed to Chicago. These two women discussed and prayed about how they could be a part of God’s plan to implement the lords work in their community. Later, after they arrive at their destination started a prayer assembly that kept expanding. Consequently, due to their increase in membership on “April 15, 1951” they formed a storefront church called Tinley Park Church of Christ (currently Parkview Christian Church). Moreover,

Preparing for the event was very nerve-racking and I felt extremely anxious and apprehensive. The church attendance was all African Americans and mostly low-income with a mix of young and old. The church itself is very old, established in 1787, and sits in one of Carbondale’s poorer neighborhoods. I have been to this church before though, for work purposes to do a homeless count at the soup kitchen, so I was a little familiar with the church in general. Based on the soup kitchen experience the attendance of people in the church was pretty much as expected.

These surveys show that church leaders have a great challenge ahead of them in order to prevent people from leaving church. They have to be more effective and have to think of creative ways to retain people in the churches.

Table 4 shows the average Rocky Mountain church spends above the UMC average on clergy compensation. Rocky Mountain has almost 4% more dedicated to staffing expenses, pushing its rank to 8th. The average Rocky Mountain church spends 2% more than the conference average on program cost but, the UMC average on operating cost. Rocky Mountain is paying its staff more, and its clergy just above the UMC average all while maintaining the conference average on debt payments. Moreover, the conference is spending 2% more in program spending, which if reduced would help bring the conference in line with the UMC non-capital spending average.

55% of Northwest Texas’s churches have fewer than 50 weekly attendees (and 9% of the conference’s total weekly attendance) while 9 churches contain 27% of the conferences total weekly attendance. In comparison to other conferences, a large portion of the conference’s

Nevertheless, we do have a few new families attending, although it is not like it was here in the 1990s when Shady Grove, Washington Chapel, and Carovosso all averaged about 90 in attendance. I served Washington Chapel after seminary from 1994-97.

As the Seventh-Day Adventist Church grew, they developed Conferences around the World. For the purpose of this study, we will look into the Florida Conference. “Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is an unincorporated, nonprofit organisation which serves as the administrative body for its sisterhood of churches with an emphasis on evangelism, nurturing constituents, and operating a system of schools”, (Adventist, n.d.). The Florida Conference covers 57 counties of the 67 in the State of Florida, it also manages 206 churches, 56 companies, and at least 33

This statistical information came from the Catholic – Hierarchy website and it shows the facts about the increase of people joining into the catholic church. I am interested in asking my informant if she has seen any growth to her church in Olympia, or any other Congregations she has visited.

Since 1998, the Cobb County Planning Commission has opened its meetings with prayers by volunteer clergy persons on a rotating basis. Id. at 1268. During the years of 2003-2004, the Planning Commission employed a deputy clerk to invite the clergy members of the county to pray at their monthly meetings using the yellow pages, the internet, and business cards. Id. at 1268. The deputy clerk was also responsible for composing a list that categorizes the clergy members who responded by denomination. Id. Notably, the deputy clerk chose to exclude certain clergy members of specific religions from the list. Id. In later years, the Commission adjusted their selection process so that all the clergy members were merged into was one master

As a Ministry Leader at Fellowship Bible Baptist Church, I have always had an interest in how other ministries and denominations across the country held their worship services. However, I had the privilege of visiting and worshipping with the Holy Community Pentecostal Church in Adel, Georgia. The Church is a Non-Denominational Pentecostal Church that was founded in 1983 under the leadership of George Horne. The church motto is serving and reaching out to the entire community, as well as meeting the needs of the people.

"Barna research is a private, non-partisan, for-profit organization… conducting and analyzing primary research to understand cultural trends related to values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors since 1984.” The study shows San Francisco and the surrounding area is 60% unchurched and 47% dechurched. Unchurched refers to individuals who “have not attended a church service in the past six months, not including a special event such as a wedding or a funeral" additionally dechurched refers to individuals who “were formally either very, somewhat or minimally active churchgoers, but have not attended a church service in the past six months, excluding a special event such as a wedding or a funeral.” Therefore according to the study, only 21.2% of the Bay Area population is churched according to the standards set out by

Throughout North America “regular worshippers” are attending less frequently. So it’s harder to gauge when a member is “at-risk” or a member is “at-the-lake” or “at-youth-sports.”

The primary distraction for middle and affluent families with children to defer attending Church is the rapid incline of kids’ activities that now occur on Sunday’s disrupting the weekly church attendance. The advance of “travel” teams and Sunday being the day of departure, has displaced Sunday Church attendance as a family and patronizing your parish in a variety of

Toronto’s branch of the Christian City Church, also known as C3, is made up of mainly millennials who take a different approach to the traditional Sunday church. C3 is a movement to make religion more casual and not as traditional. From Christian rock bands to EDM, the C3 movement believes in trying something new for millennial Christians, a more interesting atmosphere. with more than 450 churches in 64 countries, originating in New Zealand. The C3’s movement uses a ‘dressed-down approach’ for their Sunday service and their large following on social media to communicate with their church-goers. Using social media and setting themselves apart from other churches, they were able to increase their church community from 8 to 800. The church’s

Hosting vacation Bible school on last week, First Assembly of God, The Church of the Nazarene and The Zion Lutheran Church, shared in these same activities, as