Over the last several years, our consulting team has had the opportunity to work with churches all over the country. In doing so, we’ve collected data from most of those churches. That’s helpful because it allows us to begin establishing benchmarks to measure church health.
Early next year, we’re going to be releasing a new eBook that will look at measuring church health. Without giving everything away, I’m going to be sharing some of the data in posts over the next several weeks.
Today we’ll begin with looking at how many kids attend church. Again, this is a reflection of the churches we’ve worked with through the years. It includes churches of all shapes and sizes. Take a look at the graphic below.
As you can see, the average range for kids attendance is between 19 and 23 percent of total attendance. In other words, for every four adults and students that attend weekend services, the typical church has one child between the ages of birth and fifth grade.
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