I will be posting some thoughts throughout the next week on why Grace is launching a second campus in Harborcreek this spring. Today I want to very simply put forward a few statistics that as a Pastor in America - I'm having a hard time swallowing without doing something about it. These stats come from a class that I took last summer at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago called "Church Planting Boot camp."
3 UNACCEPTABLE STATISTICS
- During the past 30 years on average 4,000 churches close their doors each year while only 1,500 new churches start. This is called 'losing ground'
- The 3rd Largest Mission Field in the world is the U.S. (next to India and China) with 200,000,000 un-churched people.
- If we continue to follow current trends, by 2050 there will be half the number of professing Christians in the United States as there are right now.
Not on our watch...
On Easter Sunday 2011, Grace Church will launch a second campus in Harborcreek, PA. We will meet at the Harborcreek High School at 11:00 AM each Sunday.
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