beyond addition church planting leadership fellowship
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BEYOND ADDITION
Church Planting Leadership Fellowship
BEYOND ADDITION
Viral Churches
Methodology
The telephone survey of Protestant pastors was conducted December 1-6, 2008
The calling list was randomly drawn from a list of all Protestant churches. Up to six calls were made to reach a sampled phone number
Each interview was conducted with the senior pastor, minister or priest of the church called
Responses were weighted to reflect the geographic distribution of Protestant churches
Methodology continued
The completed sample is 1,004 phone interviews
The sample provides 95% confidence that the sampling error does not exceed +3.1%
Margins of error are higher in sub-groups.
Almost all Protestant churches participate in missions/ church
planting
None of these
Sent out long-term (10+ weeks) missionaries from your congrega-
tion
Directly participated in helping start a new church
Conducted one or more short-term mission trips
Prayed at least once a month for a specific mission field or people group
as a church
Prayed at least once a month for missionaries as a church
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%100%
5%
20%
28%
50%
74%
85%
During the past 12 months, has your church…
Few churches sponsor a church plant on their own
Our church did not help financially but provided other tangible in-kind support such as equipment, mission
trip or rent-free meeting space
Our church provided one-time direct financial support (for example, a one-time cash gift)
Our church provided ongoing, direct financial support, in partnership with other churches.
Our church accepted direct financial responsibility for the new church as primary sponsor.
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
13%
18%
52%
12%
Among churches who directly participated in helping start a new church in the last 12
months…
Don’t Know: 5%Which of the following best describes your church’s type of sponsorship or help of a new church
during the past 12 months?
Less than one in five churches provides ongoing, direct financial support to a church plant
Our church did not help financially but provided other tangible in-kind support such as equipment, mission
trip or rent-free meeting space
Our church provided one-time direct financial support (for example, a one-time cash gift)
Our church provided ongoing, direct financial support, in partnership with other churches
Our church accepted direct financial responsibility for the new church as primary sponsor
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
4%
5%
14%
3%
Among all Protestant churches…
Which of the following best describes your church’s type of sponsorship or help of a new church during the past 12 months?
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