Campaign in Milan designed to reverse troubling stats
By David Dawson
ddawson@tnbaptist.org
MILAN — Dale Denning was determined to be different. Or to at least find a way for his church to be different.
Having continuously seen troubling statistics regarding church attendance amid the pandemic, Denning — pastor of Elevate Church in Milan — felt led to start a campaign that he called “Not Part of the 30.”
The name was in reference to several recently published surveys that revealed that roughly 30 percent of regular church attenders are unlikely to return to church after the pandemic.
Denning said that he and many of his fellow pastors had seen these discouraging statistics again and again in various publications, and said he believed the Lord was leading him to take a stand. He then began developing a concept for the “Not Part of the 30” campaign at Elevate — a one-year-old church plant. [Read more…]