The State of Church Giving through 2004

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Will We Will?

  • 16th Edition, October 2006
  • ISBN: 0-9679633-6-2
  • By: John L. Ronsvalle and Sylvia Ronsvalle

Topics Include:

  • Update on Church Member Giving and Membership Trends through 2004.
  • New Survey of 2004 Overseas Missions Support in 34 Denominations.
  • Calculated Per Member Cost Per Day to Address Global Evangelization and Physical Need for Various Church Populations.
  • Roman Catholic Potential Giving in Eight Archdioceses.
  • A Proposal from the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. to Increase Giving to 0.7%, Applied to The United Methodist Church.
  • Consideration of the Effects of the Unified Budget in One Denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention.
  • Why and How Much Americans Give: This chapter includes a comparison of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey, the Internal Revenue Service Forms series, and the IRS charitable deductions-based Giving USA estimates for total contributions in the U.S. The chapter also includes an analysis of the Consumer Expenditure Survey charitable giving data for 2004 by Age, Region of Residence in the U.S., and Income Levels.
  • Will We Will?: This chapter considers: the role of traditional and meta-denominations; the process of disintermediation between denominations and congregations, and the possibility of reintermediation; the practice by denominational leaders of cathartic drama rather than practical mobilization for global needs; and the institutional enslavement of overseas missions as a consequence of the unified budget.

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