Church Multiplication
We must have vibrant, evangelistic new churches reaching out to the 18,000 communities in the United States that are without an Assemblies of God church. With your help, the Assemblies of God Trust will help make it happen.
Training Young Leaders
To help our students attend our quality schools, the AG Trust is launching The Riggs Scholarships named after former General Superintendent Ralph Riggs, an early advocate for higher education in our Fellowship.
Research and Development
The Research and Development Initiative of the AG Trust will provide the funds to enable our Fellowship to produce innovative, cutting-edge educational materials to teach timeless truths to all ages.
AG Trust Initiatives
The Core values of the AG Trust form the framework for how we go about our work; the AG Trust Initiatives are the projects to achieve our goals.
Our planning process over these past months has identified our initial goals, assessed our current resources to meeting these goals, and defined specific plans (initiatives) that are designed to achieve the goals.
As we launch the AG Trust, there are three primary initiatives which are our primary focus. Over time, this list will grow as our resources increase.
Five Reasons We Must Plant More Churches
1. New churches are historically the best method for reaching each emerging new generation.
2. New churches are very effective in conversion growth. Studies show that new churches have three to four times the conversion rate per attendee than established churches.
3. Of the 25,150 distinct communities in the United States, 18,742 do not have an Assemblies of God church and 2,808 have more than 5,000 residents.
4. The percentage of Americans who regularly attend an Assemblies of God church grew from .0587 percent to .0589 percent (an increase of .0002 percent) during the 16-year period from January 1990 to December 2006. We’re still growing, but ever so slightly.
5. During the first six months of 2008, the Assemblies of God closed more churches than we opened.