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Subject: synod support general giving summary

Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 22:41:42 -0700

From: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>

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From: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
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Subject: synod support general giving summary
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 22:41:42 -0700
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Hi -

I owe a correction to the 25% estimate this afternoon.
That's *roughly* the percentage (actually, it's 28%)
of congregations giving between nothing and 50 cents
per attendee per week in synod support.

Based on the data assembled by Jack Pease for presentation
to the synod council, here's a summary, in terms of average
weekly giving per attendee in our Synod's congregations.

Giving forwarded for mission support / general work of the synod,
per person per week on average by congregation:

  17% of congregations (11% of total attendees) NOTHING

  11% of congregations (12% of total attendees) from $0.01 to $0.50

  16% of congregations (15% of attendees) $0.51 to $1.00

  20% of congregations (21% of attendees) $1.01 to $2.00

This takes us just a hair past the mathematical average of
giving across our synod, covering 64% of congregations and
59% of attendees.

  20% of congregations (22% of attendees) $2.01 to $3.00

  11% of congregations (14% of attendees) $3.01 to $5.00
      (I'd guess that this is where we get into the
      range of congregations that are tithing, but I
      don't have data to confirm the guess for more
      than a few isolated cases)

  5% of congregations (5% of attendees) $5.01 to $11.75

I hope this is enlightening.

Randy