THEALLIANCE May 2015 PRESIDENT’S TREND REPORT

Number of U.S. Churches | 1986–2014 Source: General Council Reports 1,957 1, ,018 61

Source: Church Annual Reports Sunday Morning Attendance | 1986– ,471 42,235

Baptisms | 1986–2014 Source: Church Annual Reports 175,139 baptisms since 2000!

Local Church Income | 1986–2014 Source: Church Annual Reports 5.5%* 4.1%* * Annualized Growth Rates 3.7%*

District Operating Budget Income | 1986–2014 Excluding Church Planting Source: Church Annual Reports 4.6%* 3.8%* 9.7%* *Annualized Growth Rates

Church GCF Income | 1986–2014 Source: Church Annual Reports * Annualized Growth Rates -0.8%*1.4%* 2.6%*

Income Growth Churches, Districts, and GCF | 1986–2014

Income Growth Churches, Districts, and GCF | 1986– %

Percentage of GCF Budget Realized | 1967–1980

Percentage of GCF Budget Realized | 1967–2000

Percentage of GCF Budget Realized | 1967–2014 9% ($5.2 million) legacy gifts 11% ($3 million) legacy gifts

Note: 2003–2004 was a 18 month fiscal year but annualized for purposes of presentation Total GCF Giving | 1967–2014 With Annual Growth Percentages GCF Giving Outpacing Inflation Inflation Outpacing GCF Giving

89% 79% Great Commission Fund giving from local churches has dropped from 89% to 79% in the last decade.

Global Staff | 1970–2014 Total IWs of the U.S. C&MA Source: International Ministries 889

In the last decade, church planting grants have been reduced by 86%. $1.4 million  $200,000

GCF as a Percentage of Total Church Income | 1986– % 7.09%

Alliance Ministries as a Percentage of Total Church Income | 1986– % 19.68%

The Alliance Dollar | 2014 Total Church Income Compared to Church Giving to Alliance Ministries $35 Million

What needs to happen in our church so that we would give at least 10% to the Great Commission Fund?

What would happen if Alliance churches contributed 10% to the Great Commission Fund?

Four Levels of Giving to GCF

GCF LEVEL 1 Losing ground/impact Sending fewer workers/teams understaffed Less church planting support

GCF LEVEL 2 Holding our ground/maintaining Missing opportunities International workers remain understaffed/ church planting under-resourced

GCF LEVEL 3 Church planting resources restored Current international worker teams appropriately staffed $4 million in additional GCF giving needed

GCF LEVEL 4 WE GET TO DREAM AGAIN! More peoples reached! (4,075)

GCF LEVEL 4 WE GET TO DREAM AGAIN! Greater advances!

GCF LEVEL 4 WE GET TO DREAM AGAIN! Diaspora in America

GCF LEVEL 4 WE GET TO DREAM AGAIN! New initiatives

GCF LEVEL 4 WE GET TO DREAM AGAIN! Repairing “broken walls”

GCF LEVEL 4 WE GET TO DREAM AGAIN! “No-cost Council?”

GCF LEVEL 4 WE GET TO DREAM AGAIN! Entrepreneurs released

GCF LEVEL 4 WE GET TO DREAM AGAIN! International churches?

GCF LEVEL 4 WE GET TO DREAM AGAIN! Urban church planting?

GCF LEVEL 4 WE GET TO DREAM AGAIN! What do you long for?

GCF LEVEL 1GCF LEVEL 2 GCF LEVEL 3GCF LEVEL 4