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Outreach articles of SmallChurchPROF.com

Blacks, mirroring larger U.S. trend, 'come out' as nonbelievers

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life May 26, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: Between 1990 and 2008, the number of non-religious African-Americans nearly doubled, from 6 percent to 11 percent.

Between 1990 and 2008, the number of non-religious African-Americans nearly doubled, from 6 percent to 11 percent.

Lifestyle, African Americans, religion, nonreligious, faith, agnostic, Atheist, race

Divorce, Apartment Style

The New York Times May 20, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: Urban living in close spaces means neighbors get involuntarily drawn into marital problems, including separation and divorce. But sometimes neighbors also become a lifeline.

Lifestyle, urban life, apartment living, neighborliness, helping, marital issues

Ministry in a lonely generation

Call & Response Blog May 19, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: What does this generation want in church and ministry? Melissa Wiginton asked 20 of them.

Lifestyle, church, religion, pastors, Millennials, loneliness

Native dancing ban lifted in Alaska village

The Washington Post Feb 22, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: Banned by missionaries to Alaska about a hundred years ago, native Eskimo dancing is now making a comeback.

Lifestyle, missiology, religion, missionaries, church and culture, alaska, eskimo

Church Offers Ashes at Subway Station in NYC

Sit and Eat Feb 18, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: St. Lydia's Dinner Church (a story in itself) offered New Yorkers ashes on Ash Wednesday, accompanied by Sacred Harp singing.

Go Small to Go Big

Cole-Slaw Feb 9, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: While for years now the church has invested in growing larger, the new missional movement is trying to get smaller in its focus so that it can get bigger in its impact.

Lifestyle, religion, church, missional church, house church, small is the new big, neil cole

Jeff Smith On Cowboy Church Planting

Missiologically Thinking Feb 9, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: J. D. Payne highlights the Cowboy Church movement -- the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Lifestyle, j. d. payne, cowboy church, church planting, church and culture

The P.A.W. Approach to Locating Persons of Peace

Missiologically Thinking Feb 7, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: In church planting circles, the “person of peace” refers to the first few people who come to faith and are able to carry the gospel faster and farther throughout the population than the church planting team.

How Facebook Ads Filled My Church

OurChurch.com Feb 7, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: This church used Facebook ads to promote their Christmas program and 144 tickets were reserved by people who saw the ads.

Lifestyle, church marketing, facebook, church tech, outreach ideas

More Churches Promote Martial Arts to Reach Young Men

The New York Times Feb 2, 2010

Chuck Warnock said: Mixed martial arts fights are the new way to attract young white men to church, but is it what Jesus would do?

Lifestyle, mixed martial arts, churches, reaching young men, church outreach, fight nights at church