Welcome to the Single Adult Ministries (SAM) web site. It is designed to provide you with resources to assist in reaching single adults for Christ.

Who are single adults? Single adults are people without spouses. This includes the divorced, never-married, widow, and widower. Remember there will be divorced, never-married, widows, and widowers who are also single parents. While it is easy to think of never-married people as young adults or widows and widowers as older adults, you’ll find single adults in every age group.

If you have specific questions about SAM, please email them to singleadultministries@nazarene.org.

Single Adult Ministry Survey

The Single Adult Ministry Survey was conducted for SDMI by the Research Center in the winter of 2009-2010. Single adults were defined as those at least 30 years of age and currently without a spouse.

A random sample of 800 churches was invited by e-mail to participate in the study. The survey used an online web form to be completed by someone in the church with knowledge of the single adults in that church. By March 1, 2010, responses had been received from 141 (18%).

Observations:
1) Churches of all sizes have single adults. The number of single adults increases as church size increases, and so does the mixture of those never married, divorced, and widowed. Smaller churches are less likely to have never-married singles or widows/widowers. Single adults who are divorced are present in churches of all sizes.

Suggestions for Churches:
1) Become single adult sensitive. Listen to announcements, lessons, sermons, etc. with the perspective of the single adult in mind. In your presentations, written or oral, does “man” equal “husband” or “woman” mean “wife”?  In other words will single adults feel included? 
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