ChurchVenture: ONEBLAZE in St. Louis 2008 Photo Slideshow

Sunday, July 27, 2008

ONEBLAZE in St. Louis 2008 Photo Slideshow

What a week! 185 campers from across the USA worshiped Jesus, learned from the Bible, served the community and were changed forever with a vision to plant churches in the top 100 cities of the USA! If you attended or are interested checkout this ONEBLAZE photo slideshow (roughly 300 photos). Please forward this to any youth or counselors who don't receive my blog updates.

ONEBLAZE Photo Slideshow

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North America needs more churches:

85% of churches are plateaued or declining ^[ref]
Each year 3,750 churches close. Only 1,300 start ^[ref]
80% of Americans are "Christian" ^[ref], only 21% relate to church ^[ref]
FACT: Not enough churches exist to reverse the current trend
Starting new churches was the strategy of Jesus' first followers ^[ref]
Studies show new churches are the most effective way to engage the unchurched & re-energize existing churches ^[ref]
More reasons for starting new churches [PDF article]

Churches worldwide are growing:

China went from 1.5 to 90 million Christians in the last 40 years ^[ref]
Christianity in Vietnam grew 600% over the last decade ^[ref]
In the last 100 years Korea went from 1% to 40% Christian ^[ref]
In the last 100 years Africa went from 9% to 55% Christian ^[ref]

Churches benefit society because:

Church volunteers give over $6 billion to charities each year ^[ref]
In the last 30 years church volunteers helped build houses for over 1 million low income people ^[ref]
Couples who consistently relate to a church have the lowest divorce risk ^[ref]. Kids raised inside marriage disproportionately have better health, education & suffer less from substance abuse & violence ^[ref]
Church volunteers helping prisoners complete faith programs dramatically reduces re-incarceration to 8%, vs. non-completes 36.3% ^[ref]
Youth with high church involvement have lower rates of serious crime than those from "good areas" ^[ref]
Churches support over 4,000 crisis pregnancy centers ^[ref]
Too many other things to mention

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ONEBLAZE in St. Louis 2008 Photo Slideshow

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