— MICHIGAN —
Statehood: 1837 (26th)
Capital: Lansing, since 1847; prior to that, Detroit
Population: approximately 10 million (78 percent white, 14 percent black, 4 percent Hispanic, 4 percent other)
Area: 58,110 square miles (largest state east of the Mississippi River)
Number of counties: 83
Governor: Jennifer Granholm
Members in the U.S. Congress: 17
State senators: 38
State representatives: 110
Geography: Michigan is the only U.S. state made up of two peninsulas and the only state completely divided by water. Its 3,000-plus miles of shoreline is more than the shoreline from Florida to Maine.
Income and housing: median annual income — $47,931; home foreclosure rank – 11
Web site: www.michigan.gov
— Southern Baptists in Michigan —
Baptist State Convention of Michigan: offices located in Fenton(15 associations, 12 directors of missions)
Undesignated receipts: $17,874,628 for the last year of record
Cooperative Program giving: $1,524,580 (8.5 percent)
State convention budget: $3.5 million (NAMB contributes about $2 million annually to the convention)
Convention churches and membership:
250 churches and 42 chapels affiliated with the convention; 37,000 total members, a figure that has been dropping; 46 language churches working in 13 languages
27 church-planting efforts currently funded
Language: 10
Black: 9
Anglo: 8
19 sites currently in planning stages for new work
Language: 9
Black: 2
Anglo: 8
— Religion in Michigan —
Religious Profile (2000 census)
Catholic: 2,019,926
Evangelical: 1,079,117
Mainline Protestant: 783,541
Orthodox: 46,294
Other: 228,031
(21 of the state’s 83 counties have no Southern Baptist witness)
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