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- JDavidNewman
- Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
- I am a curious life long seeker after truth. I am never satisfied to accept things because someone said so. I want to know Why? I am always asking questions, about myself, who I am, where am I going, what is the function of the church, especially the Adventist denomination, how can we do things better, and so on. I want to be relevant to the culture without being controlled by the culture. Most of all I want to see men and women, boys and girls, come to know Jesus and rejoice in the assurance of salvation.
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Have more New Hopes around.
Does anyone know how the median age for Adventist church was computed. It looks out of whack with what I see (not just at New Hope). How long ago was that number arrived at?
The median age of 58 for Adventists in North America is from a forthcoming study by Dr. Ron Lawson, professor of sociology at the City University of New York, who has published a number of articles in academic journals about the sociology and demographics of the Adventist Church.
The median ages for the general population in the U.S. and Canada we got from the respective census web sites of those two nations. The fact that more than 1,000 Adventist congregations in North America have no children or youth comes from an unpublished survey that the Center for Creative Ministry did for NAD Church Resources in 1997.
If you want to see the details of data on this subject, the Center has published two books with data from multiple surveys: Chapter 3 in Adventist Congregations Today and Chapter 2 in Trends, Attitudes and Opinions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America.
Paul Richardson says you can order either or both of these at the resource store at creativeministry.org or by dialing (800) 272-4664.
Thank you Mike
I have just completed the median age for New Hope. From a data base of 734 attending children and adults that we have ages for (and we are missing quite a few) our median age is 26. Yes, 26. So we have a great responsibility to grow these young people in Jesus.
For those who do not understand the difference between average age and median age, average age is all ages added together and divided by the total number of people. Median age is how many are above and how many are below the halfway number. So for New Hope we have 367 people in the 0-26 age span, a period of less than thirty years. And we have 367 people in the 26 to 89 age period a span of 63 years. So you can see that we are a very young congregation.
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