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- 1. Gaining African Americans and African Immigrants to the Church Life Source: Washington Post
- 2. • General approach – Mobilizing existing saints to contact their African- American friends, neighbors, workmates and college students • Specific approach – 6 promising HBCUs that have saints who are faculty – Contacting new immigrants from East Africa, especially Ethiopia
- 4. 2044: The year the Census Bureau projects we’ll have more minorities than whites in the U.S.
- 5. A Religious Portrait of African-Americans Source: Pew Forum U.S. Religious Landscape Survey; Conducted in 2007, released in 2008
- 7. Religious Affiliation and Demographics
- 8. College-age Millennials (age 18-24) are considerably more racially and ethnically diverse than the general population.
- 9. Younger Millennials report significant levels of movement from the religious affiliation of their childhood, mostly toward identifying as religiously unaffiliated.
- 11. A Rising share of the U.S Black Population is Foreign Born 9% are immigrants; and while most of are from the Caribbean, Africans drive recent growth
- 15. A record 3.8 million black immigrants live in the United States today, more than four times the number in 1980
- 16. A Brief Snapshot of African Immigrant Christianity • An example….the Redeemed Christian Church of God in North America, is a Pentecostal movement that started in Nigeria in 1952. • It is one of Africa's largest and most influential Christian movements, claiming more than five million followers worldwide, mostly in Nigeria. • Redeemed leaders say there are 720 churches in North America, nearly double from four years ago, and they claim 15,000 members in the US. • Nearly all attendants of Redeemed Church are Nigerian or African immigrants. Sources: Pew Research Center, Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
- 17. African International Students The growth of the international student population in the United States reflects the broader global trend of the increasing number of students who pursue higher education outside their homelands each year. Source: The Brookings Institute The Geography of Foreign Students in U.S. Higher Education: Origins and Destinations
- 18. Many African students are attracted to campuses that have a high percentage of international students. Source: Campus Explorer- “African International Students”
- 19. Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the black community. Source:Wikipedia; brandnewz.com
- 20. How many students are enrolled in HBCUs?
- 21. Where are the HBCUs located? States # of HBCUs Alabama 15 Arkansas 4 District of Columbia 2 Delaware 1 Florida 4 Georgia 10 Kentucky 1 Louisiana 6 Maryland 4 Michigan 1 Missouri 2 Mississippi 7 North Carolina 11 Ohio 2 Oklahoma 1 Pennsylvania 2 South Carolina 8 Tennessee 7 Texas 9 Virginia 6 Virgin Islands 1 West Virginia 2 Total106 Source: Wikipedia
- 22. School City State Alabama A&M University Huntsville Alabama J. F. Drake State Technical College Huntsville Alabama Oakwood University Huntsville Alabama Arkansas Baptist College Little Rock Arkansas Philander Smith College Little Rock Arkansas Shorter College Little Rock Arkansas University of the District of Columbia Washington District of Columbia Howard University Washington District of Columbia Edward Waters College Jacksonville Florida Florida A&M University Tallahassee Florida Clark Atlanta University Atlanta Georgia Interdenominational Theological Center Atlanta Georgia Morehouse College Atlanta Georgia Morehouse School of Medicine Atlanta Georgia Morris Brown College Atlanta Georgia Paine College Augusta Georgia Spelman College Atlanta Georgia Southern University at Shreveport Shreveport Louisiana Southern University and A&M College Baton Rouge Louisiana Coppin State University Baltimore Maryland There are 41 HBCUs located where there is a church life.. Source: Wikipedia
- 23. School City State Morgan State University Baltimore Maryland Jackson State University Jackson Mississippi Harris-Stowe State University St. Louis Missouri Bennett College Greensboro North Carolina Johnson C. Smith University Charlotte North Carolina North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University Greensboro North Carolina North Carolina Central University Durham North Carolina Allen University Columbia South Carolina Benedict College Columbia South Carolina American Baptist College Nashville Tennessee Fisk University Nashville Tennessee Knoxville College Knoxville (Mechanicsville) Tennessee LeMoyne-Owen College Memphis Tennessee Meharry Medical College Nashville Tennessee Tennessee State University Nashville Tennessee Huston-Tillotson University Austin Texas Paul Quinn College Dallas Texas St. Philip's College San Antonio Texas Texas College Tyler Texas Texas Southern University Houston Texas Virginia Union University Richmond Virginia Source: Wikipedia
- 24. HBCU's where saints are working as faculty HBCU State City Delaware State University Delaware Dover Clark Atlanta University Georgia Atlanta Southern University and A&M College Louisiana Baton Rouge Jackson State University Mississippi Jackson North Carolina Central University North Carolina Durham Source: Wikipedia
- 25. College Campuses • A good number of younger African-American students were gained on a college campuses not HBCUs; neither were they specifically targeted, but contacted in a general way just like other students. • E.g. Campus teams at Georgia State University and Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA.
- 26. International Students from Africa • Usually attend schools where there higher concentrations of other international students • E.g. Zim Okoli an African Scholar Professor at the University of Kentucky (Lexington), raised up an African-American group meeting.
- 27. Community • The saints can contact their neighbors and workmates who are African-American or African Immigrants • E.g. Brother Caleb Chen brought some of his workmates who are African Immigrants to the recent Labor Day conference in Houston
- 28. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) • Private HBCUs may not be as easy to preach the gospel openly as public HBCUs – Atlanta campus team experience • Need burdened faculty or students on these campuses; currently we have 6 HBCUs where saints are working as faculty – Delaware State University, Dover, DE – Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA – Southern University and A&M college, Baton Rouge, LA – Jackson State University, Jackson, MS – North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC – Texas Southern University, Houston, TX (pretty soon)
- 29. New Immigrants from East Africa • Gaining Ethiopian Immigrants – the largest group from East Africa to migrate to the United States • Cities where we have clusters of Ethiopian immigrants in the church life – Houston, TX – Las Vegas, NV (Ben Tewolde) – Los Angeles, CA – Charlotte, NC
Editor's Notes
- Frey explained that the rapid growth of new minorities—Hispanics, Asians, and multi-racial persons—combined with the slow growth and aging of the white population mean that whites will no longer be a majority of the U.S. population.
- 1. But Protestantism in the U.S. – and in the black community – is not homogeneous. Rather, it is divided into three distinct traditions – evangelical Protestant churches, mainline Protestant churches and historically black Protestant churches. 2. More than three-in-four African-American Protestants (and 59% of African-Americans overall) belong to historically black Protestant denominations, such as the National Baptist Convention or the African Methodist Episcopal Church. 3. By several measures, including importance of religion in life, attendance at religious services and frequency of prayer, the historically black Protestant group is among the most religiously observant traditions. 4. But Protestantism in the U.S. – and in the black community – is not homogeneous. Rather, it is divided into three distinct traditions – evangelical Protestant churches, mainline Protestant churches and historically black Protestant churches.
- Fewer than 6-in-10 (57%) Millennials self-identify as white, compared to 72% of the general population. Approximately 1-in-5 (21%) identify as Hispanic, 14% identify as black, 6% identify as some other race, and 3% identify with two or more racial categories.
- Today, college-age Millennials are more likely than the general population to be religiously unaffiliated. They are less likely than the general population to identify as white evangelical Protestant or white mainline Protestant.
- However, much of the recent growth in the size of the black immigrant population has been fueled by African immigration. Between 2000 and 2013, the number of black African immigrants living in the U.S. rose 137%, from 574,000 to 1.4 million.
- What International Students Think About U.S. Higher Education
- -The majority (56 percent) of students from Sub-Saharan Africa are enrolled at the undergraduate level, with less than one-third (29 percent) enrolled at the graduate level, and 15 percent enrolled in non-degree programs or on Optional Practical Training (OPT) -The top Sub-Saharan African places of origin of students in the U.S. are Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Cameroon and Ethiopia. Only Nigeria has figured among the top 25 overall places of origin of international students in the U.S. - During the 2013/14 academic year, 7,912 Nigerian students were studying at U.S. colleges and universities, an 8.3 percent increase from the previous year.
- http://hbcu-levers.blogspot.com/p/frequently-asked-questions-faqs-about.html -There are 106 historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the United States, including public and private institutions, community and four-year institutions, medical and law schools.