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Meeting Friends

mericans say Starbucks and Chili’s are better places than church to meet new friends. A recent survey by Group Publishing found that restaurants, bars or pubs at- tract 18% of Americans as a place to meet new people, while churches draw 16% and online venues, like Facebook, pull 11%.

Chris Howley, director of re- search for Group, says, “The social atmosphere of a pub or restaurant draws people in without the feeling of obligation [often associated with church].”

Source: Religion News Service, February 15, 2010

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Making time for missions

ast year 1,796 students took time out from their studies and/or gave up their summer vacations to serve as student missionaries in North

America—that’s a 9.4% increase over 2008. They served in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, nine Canadian Provinces and saw 1,179 people come to Christ. To fi nd out how to get involved in student missions visit www.answerthecall.net.

Source: Missionary Mobilization, NAMB

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Changing the World

After participating in World Changers and Power Plant projects last summer 403 students committed to further missions service as summer or semester missionaries.

Source: Student Volunteer Mobilization, NAMB

Girls in Action

Girls are answering the Call and serving in student missions through the North American Mission Board at a rate of 3 to 1 over guys.

Source: Missionary Mobilization, NAMB

A Solid Foundation

58% of adults who regularly attended religious programs as teenagers said they had attended a religious service in the last week. Less frequent religious participation as a teenager correlated with less participation as an adult.

Source: The Barna Group, November 16, 2009

Look Who’s Tweeting

32 of the nation’s 50 governors now use Twitter. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has the most fol- lowers, with 1,609,285. Bobby Jindal of Louisi- ana is in second place, with 37,147.

Source: USA Today and The Week, January 29, 2010

Can You Say “Grace?”

58% of Protestant church attendees agree strongly that “Eternal salvation is possible through God’s grace alone; nothing we do can earn salvation.”

Source: LifeWay Research

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