The Church Uniting Like Never Before Go to www.oneprayer.com to hear Pastor Craig Groeschel of lifechurch.tv share the vision behind “One Prayer,” a one-of-a-kind experience linking pastors and churches worldwide. The “One Prayer” plan calls for pastors to preach a message the weekend of June 7-8, 2008, answering the question: If you could ask God to answer one prayer for the church at large, what would it be? For the next three weeks, participating church leaders will then have hundreds of video messages to choose from other churches that have asked the same question. The ‘Real’ Value of Service In 2007, volunteers from churches in Leadership Network’s Externally Focused Churches Leadership Community gave more than 1.8 million hours to kingdom-building service—from tutoring school children to supporting single parents to feeding hungry neighbors to innumerable other acts of charity. The real value of this volunteer labor becomes clear when you crunch the numbers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average value of a volunteer hour in 2007 was approximately $19.00. That means these externally focused churches donated $34,416,923 worth of volunteer labor in 2007 alone. To learn more about how Externally Focused churches are bringing hope to their communities and around the world, go to leadnet.org/externallyfocused. One in Four American Adults Not Attached to Church   The Barna Research Group has introduced the term Unattached to describe people who attended neither a conventional church nor an organic faith community (e.g., house church, simple church, intentional community) during the past year. This segment represents one out of every four adults (23%) in America. About one-third of the segment was people who have never attended a church at any time in their life. Compared to regular churchgoers, the Unattached are more likely to feel stressed out, less optimistic about the future, more likely to believe that Jesus Christ sinned while He was on earth, and much more likely to believe that the holy literature of the major faiths all teach the same principles even though they use different stories. The Unattached distinguished themselves from the churched population demographically, too. They are more likely to be single, male, and to have been divorced at some point.    Six out of ten adults in the Unattached category (59%) consider themselves to be Christian. Even more surprising, 17% of the Unattached have made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ that they consider to be very important in their life, and they believe they will experience Heaven after they die because they have confessed their sins and accepted Christ as their savior -- qualities often used to describe born-again Christians. Further, a significant proportion of the Unattached engages in traditional faith activities during a typical week. For instance, one-fifth (19%) read the Bible and three out of every five (62%) pray to God during a typical week.