2009 National New Church Conference

 


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WHY PLANT CHURCHES?
RESOURCES
  • Church planting is still the MOST effective evangelistic tool under heaven.
  • If every church seat in the U.S. was filled it would only HOLD 20% of the total population.
  • The U.S. is the THIRD largest unchurched nation in the world.
  • The estimated unchurched population in the U.S. is 190 million.
  • Half of all churches last year did not add ONE new member through conversion.
  • New churches tend to grow FASTER than more established churches.
  • We are CLOSING 7 more churches a day than we are planting.
  • NO county in the U.S. has a greater percentage of churched people then a decade ago.
  • 74% of all Americans have no MEANINGFUL church relationship