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A Statistical Model For Seventh-Day Adventist White English-Speaking Church Growth In The United States, Des Cummings
A Statistical Model For Seventh-Day Adventist White English-Speaking Church Growth In The United States, Des Cummings
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Problem. Until 1983 there was no statistical model for projecting church growth among white English-speaking Seventh-day Adventist churches in the United States. The purpose of this study was to identify a forecasting model based on the variables that were gathered from pastor and local church reports. Thegeneral hypothesis was that a significant predictive relationship existed between some combination of report variable/factors and the rate of church growth or decline. This hypothesis was subdivided into four specific hypotheses.
Method. One hundred forty-five churches were randomly selected from the white English-speaking churches in the United States. The financial, membership, pastor, and Sabbath …