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%
|
