Topic: Demographics
Population Trends That Will Impact Your Ministry Planning
By Chris Forbes | November 5, 2008
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The population trends that will affect your ministry for the next 17 years are significant. Census data shows the sizes of the generations now living and how they are proportioned to each other. Looking at the data, it is apparent that the following things are true.
The Silent Generation (born 1925-1945) ...
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How to Develop Personas in Ministry Outreach and Marketing
By Chris Forbes | July 28, 2008
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Advertising and outreach materials that are generically written and targeted at the general public are usually ineffective. If you want your marketing to work, you must target an audience and go after them. You can develop better copy and organize your materials for more effective outreach when you have a ...
Topics: Demographics, Uncategorized
Are You Ready for the Age Wave? Thom Rainer Speaks about the Coming Age Wave
By Chris Forbes | November 14, 2007
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I saw this article The Church In 2011: Catching The Age Wave by Thom Rainer quoted in a book I am reading about boomers called The Boomer Century (page 237) by Richard Croker. Dr Rainer makes some observations (listed below) based on his research of the topic that reflect how I have ...
Topics: Demographics
Are You Ready for the Age Wave? And the Shrinking Youth/Young Adult Market?
By Chris Forbes | November 13, 2007
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Did the Boomers build the Evangelical church? This is not a theological question. Of course Jesus builds the church. I am just waxing practial from a macro scale here. Who comprise the majority of people in the church? What has been the effect of the Boomer generation on the ministries ...
Topics: Demographics
Are You Ready for the Age Wave? Understanding How the Greatest Demographic Shift in History will Affect Ministry
By Chris Forbes | November 9, 2007
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Recently, I became interested in the impact of the baby boom on ministry when I led a local research project in my home state of Oklahoma that revealed that nearly 70% of the unchurched (people who had not been in church for six months or more except for a funeral, ...
Topics: Demographics
Are You Ready for the Age Wave? Who Really are the Missional/Emergent Leaders? Senior Adult and Ethnic Ministry Leaders
By Chris Forbes | November 6, 2007
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This graph in the image link is the market size of various age groups from now until 2015. Notice that the boomer market will drive up the size of the 50-69 year old segment of the population. Meanwhile the market of 35-49 year olds is growing smaller. The 20-34 year ...
Topics: Demographics
