In America, 3500 to 4500 churches close their doors each year; if we lose our small churches, we lose America.

Interesting Statistics about Americans, Church and God.

In America, 3500 — 4000 churches close their doors each year. (from the Barna Study -- www.barna.org)
Churches lose an estimated 2,765,000 people each year to nominalism and secularism. (from the Barna Study -- www.barna.org)
Usual Sunday church attendance has from dropped from 1,606,00 in 1968 to 881,000 in 2005.
(www.churchsociety.org)
Only 21% of Americans attend religious services every week.
(www.religioustolerence.org)
The proportion of the population that can be classified as Christian declined from 86% in 1990 to 77% in 2001.
(American Religion Identification Survey)
The number of adults who classify themselves in non-Christian religious groups has increased from about 5.8 million to about 7.7 million.
(American Religion Identification Survey)
According to the Wikipedia.org and a reference to the CIA Fact Book, the following is the order of religious preferences in the U.S.
1. Christian (78.5%)
  - Protestant (51.3%)
  - Roman Catholic (23.9%)
  - Mormon (1.7%) Other Christian (1.6%)
2. unaffiliated (12.1%)
3. other or unspecified (2.5%)
4. Buddhist (0.7%)
5. Muslim (0.6%)
Those who do not attend church are: (from the Barna Study -- www.barna.org)
- more likely to feel stressed out
- less optimistic
- much less likely to believe they are making a postive difference in the world
- less likely to be concerned about the moral condition of the nation
Those who do attend church are 35% more likely to live longer.
(www.washingtontimes.com)

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