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Being Good Steward's of God's Money

Considering the discussion going on and the attempts made to reduce the Tithe of Tithe in the COG, I thought the article below was worth sharing.

From the November 2007 Evangel:

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Engage 21 Conference

I got a call from Tony Lane in the Youth Department for the Church of God about an upcoming conference for emerging, missional pastors in the COG.  We talked about what needed to be done to connect with this group.  It was a good, engaging conversation...thought I'd pass the ad for the conference along as published in the Covenant Resource Magazine.

 

Attendance & Tithing Synthesis of the Top 100 Churches

PDF Download of Top 100 Church Attendance & Tithing Comparison

The above PDF is a document that contains a synthesis of attendance and tithe stats (a 6 month average) on the Top 100 largest churches.  From this document, you can get an idea of how heavily dependent corporate bureaucracy of the COG is on such a small number of churches and see the per capita break down of individual churches.  The image below is a jpeg of the first page only of the entire 4 page pdf document.   

Attendance Stitstics of the Top 100 Largest COG Congregations

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The above PDF is a document that contains the attendance stats (a 6 month average) on the Top 100 largest churches and the pastors name.  The image below is a jpeg of the first page only of the entire 3 page pdf document.  In the next post, I'll post a synthesis of the attendance and giving documents.

Tithe Statistics of the Top 100 Tithing Churches

PDF Download of TOP 100 Tithing Church11-06-04-07.pdf

The above PDF is a document that contains the tithing stats (a 6 month average) on the Top 100 churches, the total amount given by all Top 100 churches, the pastors name, and the state where they are located.  The image below is a jpeg of the first page only of the entire 3 page pdf document.  In the next two posts, I'll post the attendance average as well as a synthesis of the two documents.

Average COG Congregation Size USA & Canada

This information was recently presented at the Top 100 Pastors gathering in Atlanta, GA.

PDF Download of the COG Congregation Size USA and Canada 3 Month Avg

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