About one-third of respondents (32%) reported that their congregations have adopted the "Commitment to Evangelism." In contrast, fully 74% of congregations reported being at least somewhat involved in evangelism efforts during 1994: 10% reported they were "very involved," 25% were "involved," and 39% were "somewhat involved." On the other hand, 19% were "hardly involved," and 7% reported they were "not at all involved." The percentage that have adopted the "Commitment to Evangelism" and the percentage that are at least somewhat involved in evangelism showed no change from the previous year.
Only 13% of responding congregations reported that the focus of their domestic evangelism efforts in 1994 was on persons with racial-ethnic backgrounds different from those of their members. Although we did not ask what groups were targeted, this could include predominantly African-American churches focusing their evangelism efforts on whites or white, non-Hispanic congregations focusing their evangelism efforts on Hispanic.
The majority of these congregations (85%) have memberships that are predominantly white. Among the 15% of such congregations that are not predominantly white, 39% are predominantly African American, 31% are predominantlty Asian American, 16% are predominantly Hispanic, 8% are predominantly Native American, and the remaining 2% are predominantly some other racial-ethnic group.
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