Source: New Church Giving Report Released, Baptist Press, The Church Report, October 19, 2006'

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• Church members gave 2.56 percent of their
  income in 2004 down from 3.11 percent in 1968.

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• Empty Tomb research organization found that
  giving to benevolent causes increased slightly in
  2004 from the 2003 level.

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• The levels for 2003 and 2004 both rounded to
  0.38 percent, the lowest in the 37-year period
  empty tomb has tracked such numbers.

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• For each dollar donated to a congregation,
  denominations spent 2 cents on overseas missions
  in 2004, down from 7 cents in the 1920s.

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• The authors of the research stated that had
  giving been at an average of 10 percent in 2004
  rather than 2.56 percent, there would have been
  at least an additional 164 billion available for
  the overseas and domestic mission work of churches

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• Empty tomb determined that 1 cent of each
  dollar given to an SBC church ultimately makes it
  way to the International Mission Board to support
  missionaries.

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