Each month Christianity Today magazine summarizes some important and frequently surprising statistics concerning the church. Here is June’s summary:

Giving
1,238,201: Nonprofit charities and foundations in the U.S., as of 2009.
654,186: Nonprofit charities and foundations in 1996.
Source: The Chronicle of Philanthropy/Internal Revenue Service

Evangelism
28%: Protestant churches that participated in some way in a church plant in the past 12 months.
3%: Protestant churches that served as the primary (financial) sponsor of a church plant.
Source: LifeWay Research

Church Life
6: More times per year that the average American woman attends church than the average American man.
10: More times per year that women attended church than men in 1972.
Source: Sociology of Religion

Education
9,734: Enrollment at evangelical seminaries’ satellite or extension campuses.
+28.1%: Change since 2000.
-11.7%: Change since 2007.
Association of Theological Schools/Christian Century

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