Jim Franklin
23rd June 2008, 10:52 PM (22:52)
Latest that I could find in links from the Church of the Nazarene homepage, 2003.
I have expressed my concern before about the disparity between the number of districts in the different US regions as to their ability to support our universities and college.
Northeastern 8 Districts with 656 churches ENC
East Central 8 Districts with 557 churches MVNU
North Central 8 Districts with 464 churches MNU
Southeastern 12 Districts with 849 churches TNU
Central 11 Districts with 715 churches ONU
South Central 10 Districts with 611 churches SNU
Southwestern 9 Districts with 522 churches PLNU
Northwest 6 Districts with 422 churches NNU
Now as a Northwesterner you can see the reason for my concern. In fact if you were to try to find a way to get from Barrow, AK to Trinidad, CO the routing services say "You can't get there from here." Should the Sacramento District be shifted from the Southwest to the Northwest, most of it is closer than Colorado. Colorado is now assigned to its third different school as it was earlier assigned to Bethany and Pasadena at different times.
These statistics are 5 years old but they do present a pattern of disparity. If I knew where to find up to date statistics I would present them. This does not include the Southwestern Latin or the Southwestern Native American Districts for I am not sure if they are assigned to either Point Loma or Southern.
I have expressed my concern before about the disparity between the number of districts in the different US regions as to their ability to support our universities and college.
Northeastern 8 Districts with 656 churches ENC
East Central 8 Districts with 557 churches MVNU
North Central 8 Districts with 464 churches MNU
Southeastern 12 Districts with 849 churches TNU
Central 11 Districts with 715 churches ONU
South Central 10 Districts with 611 churches SNU
Southwestern 9 Districts with 522 churches PLNU
Northwest 6 Districts with 422 churches NNU
Now as a Northwesterner you can see the reason for my concern. In fact if you were to try to find a way to get from Barrow, AK to Trinidad, CO the routing services say "You can't get there from here." Should the Sacramento District be shifted from the Southwest to the Northwest, most of it is closer than Colorado. Colorado is now assigned to its third different school as it was earlier assigned to Bethany and Pasadena at different times.
These statistics are 5 years old but they do present a pattern of disparity. If I knew where to find up to date statistics I would present them. This does not include the Southwestern Latin or the Southwestern Native American Districts for I am not sure if they are assigned to either Point Loma or Southern.