BEYOND ADDITION

Church Planting Leadership Fellowship

BEYOND ADDITION

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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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