Thursday, February 03, 2011

Churches of Christ

Source: The Christian Higher Education Foundation Report

Churches of Christ rank first in the nation in weekly attendance among their membership.
Churches of Christ rank first in the nation in distribution of congregations.
Churches of Christ rank fourth in the nation in number of counties in which there is a congregation.
Churches of Christ are the sixth fastest growing church in America.
Churches of Christ constitute the twelfth largest religious group in America.
Churches of Christ are regarded as having a "remarkable degree of unity" by other religious groups because "they have experienced far less fragmentation".

Only 4.2 percent of young people in Churches of Christ who graduated from high school in the past ten years have divorced, which is half of the rate of their peers (8.1%).