Religious researchers representing a dozen different U.S. Christian denominations and faith communities will brave icy Midwestern weather this week in order to put together critical information about congregational vitality that your church or faith community may need. The Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership Steering Committee is holding its winter meeting at the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky, where a week of bad winter weather has left thousands still without electric power and sub-zero wind-chill-factor temperatures in the air. How to analyze and publicize responses to the partnership's Faith Communities Today (FACT) 2008 survey of congregational leaders and whether and how to organize a major 2010 survey in the midst of lean economic times are two issues on the agenda. Pictured above - in this week's ice - is Peace Seeker, the decorative horse that graces the outside entrance to Louisville's Presbyterian Center.
-- Perry Chang
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