Here is the study I just completed related to the concentrations of Evangelicals in the U. S. and Canada. You need BOTH the report and the PowerPoint presentation.
WHY THIS STUDY?
- The Spirit uses good research to guide missionary strategy
- To show the need for up-to-date studies and call Evangelicals to conduct better research (the best data is several years old)
- To show the least evangelical areas in the U. S. and Canada
- To urge missionaries, churches, and mission strategists to consider the importance of focusing on the most needy (and most receptive) areas
From 35,000 to 15,000 Feet
For the most part, Evangelicals in the U. S. and Canada have done a terrible job when it comes to knowing what is going on in our “backyards.” We have proven ourselves in areas of research related to other countries. I am amazed we have a fairly good understanding of what is taking place among a people group living on the backside of the Himalayas, but little knowledge of the same people group living on the other side of our city.
This report is an attempt to provide the Church with a glimpse of what are the realities at the state/province, county, and metro levels. It is an attempt to zoom-in from our current “high altitude” perspective to a lower level. The closer we get to the ground, the better our understanding of reality.
While this data has been available for several years, I am not aware of any evangelical group that has collected it, organized it, and given it away to other evangelicals for developing mission strategies.
What you will find
- Percentage of Evangelicals in each U.S. state
- Evangelical Church to Population ratio in each U.S. state
- A sampling of some U.S. counties with an evangelical population of less than or equal to 10% AND the evangelical church to population ratio in each of those counties
- A list of U.S. metro areas with less than 10% evangelical population
- A specific list of U.S. metro areas with less than 3% evangelical population
- The number of evangelical churches and the evangelical church to population ratios in selected Canadian metro areas
Please take these resources and give them away for Kingdom advancement.
I plan to follow up in the next several days, providing specific posts related to this study.
Get the Report Here
Get the PowerPoint Here (10.8 MB file)
Thanks JD, these stats are great to have pulled together all in one place.
Thanks Reid! I hope they help.
Well done! Thanks for making it available.
Thanks for all your work! This is fascinating. May God give us discernment of what to do and unction to do it.
Are there any plans to create a North American map with these “hot spots” colored on it? It would be great for prayer and planning to have a map with the most and least evangelized areas colored so these areas jump out at you.
awesome stats,thanks for compiling it all!
You are welcome, Lon. Thank you for the encouragement. J. D.
That is a possibility. You are correct in that it would be helpful. — J. D.
Thank you, Chad. I appreciate your email of encouragment. –J. D.
You are welcome. Use it well. –J. D.
The writer of https://www.jdpayne.org has written a superior article. I got your point and there is nothing to argue about. It is like the following universal truth that you can not disagree with: Computer programming is simply debugging a blank screen. I will be back.
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Have you seen David Olson’s data on attendance by county and broken down into evangelical, main line and catholic? It’s available from theamericanchurch dot org
Thanks, Bruce, for the link to the resource!
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