Evangelicalism’s Minority and Immigrant Future

By Published on July 25, 2015

Contrary to popular opinion, the Church is not dying in America; it is alive and well, but it is alive and well among the immigrant and ethnic minority communities and not among the majority white churches in the United States.

Consider these findings from “The Changing Shape of Boston’s Church Community” in New England’s Book of Acts (Boston: Emmanuel Gospel Center, 2007). In 1970, the city of Boston was home to about 200 churches. Thirty years later, there were 412 churches. The net gain in the number of churches was in the growth of the number of churches in the ethnic and immigrant communities. Haitian communities began planting churches in 1969, and now Boston has more than fifty Haitian churches. Between 2001 and 2006, ninety-eight new churches were planted in the city of Boston; of those ninety-eight, nearly forty have non-English or bi-lingual services, including Spanish, Creole, and Portuguese. Why was it then, that the majority of the country viewed Boston as a spiritually dead place? This is not spiritual death, it is spiritual life and vitality.

Read the article “Evangelicalism’s Minority and Immigrant Future” on patheos.com.

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