Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Racial Diversity and the ELCA



So, I've been looking at the ELCA's social statement on race "Freed in Christ: Race, Ethnicity, and culture" for my pub theology discussion tonight.
One of the goals coming out of this statement was for the ELCA to grow non-white membership to 10% of overall membership by 2003.
Here's a chart comparing the church I serve, the national church, and the community I serve in (please note the South Plainfield statistics don't add up to 100% because of how they count Latinos... the national church one is slight off too... I fused wiki with this):


White
90%
94%
67%
African Descent
7%
1%
10%
Asian
0
1%
14%
Other
0
1%
5%
Multiracial
1%
1%
3%
Latino
2%
1%
13%