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A SURVEY OF SINGLENESS IN THE CHURCH

A SURVEY OF SINGLENESS IN THE CHURCH. Dennis Franck, Director Single Adult/Young Adult Ministries AG National Leadership and Resource Center. HOW MANY SINGLE ADULTS ARE IN YOUR CHURCH? (all ages/types). WANT TO FIND OUT? TRY THIS SURVEY! It will… Take only a few minutes

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A SURVEY OF SINGLENESS IN THE CHURCH

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  1. A SURVEY OF SINGLENESS IN THE CHURCH Dennis Franck, Director Single Adult/Young Adult Ministries AG National Leadership and Resource Center

  2. HOW MANY SINGLE ADULTS ARE IN YOUR CHURCH?(all ages/types) • WANT TO FIND OUT? • TRY THIS SURVEY! It will… • Take only a few minutes • Enlighten your church staff • Educate your church congregation • Show the need for Single Adult/Young Adult Ministry • Give credibility to your ministry • Build support for Single Adult/Young Adult Ministry

  3. TAKE A SUNDAY AM SURVEY! • Show these slides of demographics (Begin on slide 4) • Then, ask these 4 questions in a Sunday service • Have ALL ages of single adults stand simultaneously • Emphasize ALL types of single adults-(some don’t admit to singleness easily or consider themselves single) • Thank them for standing after each question • Have each group remain standing till ALL 4 questions have been asked • After EACH slide with a question, say, “Do you see how singleness affects the church?”

  4. 44 % U.S. ADULTS NOT MARRIED (AGE 18 +) Never married 61.5 M 26.9% (of all adults) Divorced 23.7 M 10.4% “ Widowed 14.3 M 6.3% “ TOTAL 99.5 M 43.6% “ Separated 5.5 M 2.4% “ Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Current Population Survey, 2010Social & Economic Supplement

  5. Median Age at First Marriage Men Women 2004 27.8 26.4 1990 26.1 23.9 1980 24.7 22.0 1970 23.2 20.8 1960 22.8 20.3 USAToday-July 18, 2005, 6 D-taken from the 2004 census bureau demographics

  6. Growth of Single Person Households • 1900 5% of all households • 1960 13% of all households • 17% of all households • 2008 28% of all households • America’s Families and Living Arrangements:2008http://www.censusgov/PressRelease/www/releases/archives/families_households013378html

  7. UNMARRIED HOUSEHOLDS vs. MARRIED HOUSEHOLDS… • Married households • 55.2 million…………………………..49. 8 percent • Unmarried households • 55.8 million ………………………….50. 2 percent • 14 million single women • 5 million single men • 36. 7 million single, “non family”- friends of same/opposite sex -Reported in 10/15/06 Yahoo News, Maxim Kniazkov U.S. CENSUS BUREAU - 2005 American Community Survey http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061015/ts_alt_afp/afplifestyleusscociety_061015170214

  8. THE FACE OF THE FAMILY HAS CHANGED! Then - Nuclear Family

  9. Now…Single-Parent Family Step/Blended – Parent Family Family

  10. Single - Parent Families • S P households make up 27. 3 % of all family households with children under 18 • 1 in 2 children born mid 90’s or later will live in a single parent family • 24 million children live in a home absent their father • 1 in 3 children is born to unmarried parents—(39 % in 2008) • 43% of teens do not live with both natural parents • Nuclear families (both original parents) - 24% of all families --Goter, Susan, Strategic Adult Ministry Journal, Issue 146, 12, 13 --Horn, Wade F., President of the National Fatherhood Initiative, Gaithersburg, Md --SAM Journal, Issue 144, p 7 and Issue 146, p 13

  11. Divorce/Step/Blended Families • 8 YEARS: Average duration of 1st marriage ending in divorce • 6 YEARS: Average duration of 2nd marriage ending in divorce --American Blended Family Association --http://www.usabfa.org/Default.aspx?pageId=188238 • 23 Million blended family/step-family households in U. S. • 2,100 new blended families formed daily in U. S. • 68% of blended family re-marriages fail within 6 years --American Blended Family Association, Barna Research Online

  12. A SURVEY OF SINGLENESS IN THE CHURCH • IF YOU ARE SINGLE OR SINGLE-AGAIN… BETWEEN 18 - 90 YEARS OLD… • NEVER MARRIED • FORMERLY MARRIED • WIDOWED • SINGLE PARENT • SEPARATED • Please stand & stay standing (all at once) • “Do you see how singleness affects the church?”

  13. SINGLENESS IN THE CHURCH • IF YOU ARE MARRIED NOW BUT WERE SINGLE-AGAIN DUE TO … • DEATH OF A MARRIAGE • DEATH OF A SPOUSE • Please stand & stay standing… • “Do you see how singleness affects the church?”

  14. SINGLENESS IN THE CHURCH • IF YOU HAVE A RELATIVE WHO IS… • DIVORCED • WIDOWED • NOT MARRIED - 21 YRS OR OLDER • SEPARATED • Please stand & stay standing • “Do you see how singleness affects the church? “

  15. HELPING IN THE SINGLE ADULT OR YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY? • If you are helping in the single adult or young adult ministry stay standing • Everyone else please sit down.

  16. SINGLENESS IN THE CHURCH • YOU MAY THINK YOU’LL NEVER BE SINGLE, BUT BY FATE OR BY MATE YOU COULD BE! • YOU MAY NOT NEED THE SINGLE ADULT/YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY TODAY, BUT YOU MAY BY TUESDAY! • YOU MAY BE ONE HEARTBEAT AWAY FROM SINGLENESS! • DO YOU SEE HOW SINGLENESS AFFECTS THE CHURCH?

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