Christmas Outreach A


s the Christmas season approaches, there are many ways your church can share the love of Christ this holiday with those in and around your community.


• Have the children in your church send a Christ- mas card to a missionary and their family.


• Partner with local schools to provide Christmas gifts to families in need in the community.


• Take members of your choir or music ministry Christmas caroling at local hospitals, nursing homes or to homebound members of your con- gregation.


• Let your church’s small groups or Sunday School classes shop together to provide a Christmas din- ner for families in need in the community.


For more ways your church can reach out to your community during this or any season, visit namb. net/loveloud.


After-School Care


More than 15 million school-aged children in the United States are estimated to be on their own during after-school hours. For ideas on how your church can provide opportunities and care for children like this in your community, visit namb. net/loveloud.


Source: Outreach, July/August 2012


this&that SBC Diversity


Southern Baptist churches have been steadily grow- ing more diverse over the last 20 years. In 1990, 95% of all SBC churches were primarily Anglo. Today, that number has changed to 80%, dropping the number of non-Anglo churches from 1 in 20 to 1 in 5 in just two decades.


Source: LifeWay Research, June 18, 2012


A Growing Convention


Source: NAMB.net, June 14, 2012


Economic Segregation R


Source: Pew Research, August 1, 2012 Family Delay


esidential areas are steadily growing more segregated by income in 27 out of 30 of the nation’s largest metro areas. Nearly 28% of all low- income households were located among a majority of low-income areas, a number up from 23% in the last three decades. Additionally, 18% of upper- income households live in the majority of upper-income census groups, doubling from 9% in the last 30 years.


Source: Newsweek, July 30, 2012


Disaster Relief


Between 2010 and 2011, the number of church plants reported by state convention partners grew by 27%. A total of 1,003 new SBC church plants were reported in North America in 2011.


Nearly one-third of Americans between the ages of 18 to 34 have put off having a baby or getting mar- ried due to the economic recession.


Southern Baptist Disaster Relief is ranked among the top three disaster relief agencies in the United States. For more information on how you can be involved in SBDR efforts this year, visit namb.net/dr.


Source: North American Mission Board


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