•   Figure 1: U.S. Per Capita Income/Per Member Giving as a Percent of Income, 1916-2007

•   Figure 2: Giving as a Percent of Income and Membership as a Percent of U.S. Population, 1968-2007

•   Table 1: Per Member Giving as a Percentage of Income, 1968-2007

•   Table 2: Per Member Giving, Current Dollars, 1968-2007

•   Table 3: Per Member Giving, Inflation-Adjusted Dollars, 1968-2007

•   Lifestyle Spending Table

•   A Sermon by Arthur Simon, Epiphany 2, 2003, Emmanuel, Catonsville, John 1:43-51. About the Author.

A mailing to 202 denominations resulted in a 41% return rate for those denominations successfully contacted. The statement posed read, "Church members in the United States should increase giving through their churches in an effort to stop the millions of annual preventable global child deaths in Jesus' name." Of those responding, 81% said yes, 6% said no, and 14% did not choose yes or no. The detailed text from The State of Church Giving through 1999 (published 2001) is available. The full list of the national leaders who received the mailing is available by denomination or by zip code. In the table, "Y" equals a "Yes" response. "N" equals a "No" response. "O" equals a response that was "Neither" Yes or No. Comments written by the respondents are provided as well.

•  Systems Analysis

Systems and Subsystems Analysis: A Case Study, an excerpt from The State of Church Giving through 1998 (published 2000), considers denominational structures that work against increased mission giving, including a case study of The United Methodist Church. [PDF]

•  Two Solutions

Two Solutions for the Vacuum of Leadership in the Church in the U.S., an excerpt from The State of Church Giving through 2000 (published 2002), offers two strategies to encourage church members to improve giving in order to impact global need in Jesus' name. [PDF]

•  Needs Analysis

Reversing the Decline in Benevolences Giving: A Country-by-Country Needs Analysis, an excerpt from The State of Church Giving through 2001 (published 2003), describes the need for a country-by-country needs analysis with a reference point of stopping, in Jesus' name, global child deaths. [PDF]

•  Priorities and Consequences

Giving Trends and the Church's Priorities, an excerpt from The State of Church Giving through 2003 (published 2005), explores national and local church priorities; reviews Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches editions from 1916 through 1982 for historical perspective; discusses possible social consequences of current giving trends; and offers recommendations to encourage the church's commitment to the Great Commission in the context of the Great Commandment. [PDF]

•  Will We Will?

Will We Will?, an excerpt from The State of Church Giving through 2004: Will We Will? (16th edition, October 2006), considers topics including:

•	Will meta-denominations replace current denominational structures?
•	Is the goal of denominations to mobilize their congregations in mission outreach, or provide cathartic drama at a maintenance level?
•	Do denominations have a role in helping congregations set their priorities?
•	Is an emphasis on missions versus congregational maintenance a zero-sum challenge?
•	Will congregations in the U.S. serve as global mission outreach centers and financial discipleship centers, or succumb to Mammonism and become irrelevant to the work of God's kingdom?

•  Abolition of the Institutional Enslavement of Overseas Missions

Abolition of the Institutional Enslavement of Overseas Missions, an excerpt from The State of Church Giving through 2005: Abolition of the Institutional Enslavement of Overseas Missions (17th edition, October 2007), explores various topics, including:

•	Describing Congregational and Denominational Organization regarding Overseas Missions.
•	The Church in the U.S. in the Midst of Miraculous Circumstances.
•	Potential Versus Practice.
•	A Lack of Vested Interest in Changing the Status Quo.
•	Consequences of Religion Being Practiced without Power.
•	Signs of Hope for a Movement to Abolish the Institutional Enslavement of Overseas Missions.
•	Enslavement or Freedom for Overseas Missions?

•  Global Triage for Word and Deed Need

Global Triage for Word and Deed Need, an excerpt from The State of Church Giving through 2006: Global Triage, MDG 4, and Unreached People Groups (18th edition, October 2008), explores various topics including:

•	A Choice Before the Church in the U.S.
•	Triage as an Organizing Strategy.
•	Is Triage for Global Word and Deed Need Necessary?
•	An Examination of the Evidence: Allocation of Word Mission Resources.
•	An Examination of the Evidence: Rate of Progress in Alleviating Physical Needs.
•	Choice and Consequence: Consequences for Church Structure.
•	Triage as a Strategy for Change.

The Potential of the Church, chapter 6 from The State of Church Giving through 2002 (published 2004), explores potential Christian missions giving, the positive impact such giving could have, and possible reasons why Christians do not give more.

•	Why Is There No Creative Leadership?
•	Are There Signs of Hope?
•	The Church of Thyratira and the Church of Laodicea
•	The Chicago Archdiocese and Tithing: $7 billion
•	What Is Joe Christian Supposed to Do?
•	A Korean Church That Gives 60% To Missions

The Potential of the Church, chapter 6 from The State of Church Giving through 2003 (published 2005), presents a survey of 28 Protestant denominations� overseas missions giving, and a historical review of missions support.

•	Per Capita Giving to International Missions
•	Denominational Overseas Missions Income, 1916-1927
•	Denominational Overseas Missions Income, 1924-25 and 2003
•	Changes in Denominational Priorities
•	Potential for Overseas Missions Funding
•	Potential Giving at 10% of Income in 2003
•	Positive consequences of Increased Overseas Missions Giving
•	Can Congregations Allocate More to Missions?
•	Two Maryland Congregations Focus on Africa
•	Antioch Presbyterian Church, Chonju, South Korea
•	Re-Imagining Missions
•	Will the Potential Be Realized?

A Unified Theory of Giving and Membership, an excerpt taken from The State of Church Giving through 1993 (published 1995), considers five denominations in terms of changes in membership compared to per member giving to missions. [PDF]

•  Consumer Expenditure Survey Analysis

•  Disparity in Reporting of Philanthropy

•  Update of Disparity in Reporting of Philanthropy

•  Report Card on the Measurement of Philanthropy

Chapter 7 of The State of Church Giving through 2002 (published October 2004), reviews various national measurement of philanthropy efforts, giving the combined efforts an "F." [PDF]

•   "Remembering What It Means: Have you seen the movie Seabiscuit?" From the October/November 2003 empty tomb®, inc. Opportunities newsletter.

•   "Power for Good." From the February/March 2004 empty tomb®, inc. Opportunities newsletter.

•   "Sometimes Tears in the Street Are the Best Evangelism" from the April/May 2007 empty tomb®, inc. Opportunities newsletter. Dr. Lilias (Horton) Underwood and Horace G. Underwood were missionaries to Korea at the end of the nineteenth century. Their grandson, Richard F. Underwood, shared an original story he titled "The Queen's Physician and the Pauper" that describes one incident in his grandparents' lives there.