Benefactors
Thanks to benefactors like you, our students will thrive in their seminary education, preparing to lead future congregations of Christians. If you can help support the preparation of new pastors to do God’s work throughout our nation, please e-mail us at inquiries@seminaryrockies.org. A donation of $10,000 can support a seminary student for an entire year. Whatever you are able to contribute will help ensure solid leadership in the mainline churches for years to come.
Seminary of the Rockies is incorporated in the state of Colorado and is a 501(c)(3) corporation. Your gifts are fully tax deductible.
What’s at Stake?
With consistently declining membership, the mainline churches need new leaders to guarantee a prosperous future. Seminary of the Rockies is committed to providing just that: a generation of young, well-educated, enthusiastic pastors ready to build and support mainline congregations nationwide.
The Facts
According to a June 2007 article in The Layman Online, in 2006, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. lost 46,544 members. Since 1965, membership has dropped by a staggering 45.7%.
"The worship roll has been growing but membership has still been declining in the United Methodist Church. According to tentative statistics compiled by the denomination’s communications team, church membership declined by more than 71,000 in 2004 despite the addition of 15,000 United Methodists to the rolls."
"The number of ordained clergy age 35 or under in mainline denominations is remarkably low. The United Church of Christ lists only 207 clergy in that category--only 4 percent of its total number of ministers. The figure is even lower for the Disciples of Christ (3.7 percent) and the Episcopal Church (3.9 percent), and it is only slightly higher for American Baptists (5.8 percent), for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (6.1 percent), for United Methodists (6.7 percent) and for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (7 percent)."
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