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Track: Networking

Speaker: Ed Stetzer

Topic: Trends in Church Planting

This is where Ed Stetzer presents missional research goodness. You can download the entire powerpoint and presentation here: Missional Research. I will highlight things here that are not in the powerpoint.

• 200 million Americans don’t know Christ; 120 million are ‘unchurched’.
• Typical church plant attendance is low: around 50. We have to keep our expectations realistic.
• 4yr Survivability = 68%. 4yr Survivability in 1988 = 67%. Improvement? Nope.
• Stan Wood has done some mainline research, and Todd Hunter has done interesting stuff with church ‘pathology’/autopsy reports on why church plants fail. I’m looking them up soon.

Good stuff as usual from Stetzer.