Benefits of Church - Pleasant Valley Church Brantford

Benefits of Church: 1) Church going is connected with better health:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/10/23/churchgoing-correlated-with-better-health-a/

2) Church goers live longer: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1479774/The-secret-of-long-life…-go-to-church.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/05/16/another-possible-benefit-of-going-to-worship-services-a-33-percent-chance-of-living-longer/?utm_term=.6349f57e93e2

3) Church goers have lower risks of depression http://news.nationalpost.com/holy-post/attendance-at-religious-services-lowers-risk-of-depression-study-finds

4) Churches contribute positively in many ways to the community: financially, socially, spiritually https://www.cardus.ca/organization/news/282/

5) Church goers are happier: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/files/2010/10/AreWeHappyYet.pdf

6) Church goers have stronger marriages: http://drstoop.com/the-couple-that-prays-together/

7) Church goers have stronger families:

http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF15A40.pdf

8) Church attenders have a place to Belong As soon as anyone gets serious about anything, they join a club. Serious about health… join a gym. Serious about recovery… join a 12 step group. Serious about stamps… join a collecting group. Serious about spirituality, discovering God, and growing in your faith… join a church! 9) Church attenders have a place to Believe: We love wearing our favourite team’s jerseys’ to events… it makes us feel (and look like) we’re all on the same team. A church family is that place in the community where we can believe… where there are other like minded people we can do life with. 10) Church attenders have a place to Become. Faith in God is a journey. No one is perfect and no one arrives overnight. A church family supports us on this Journey.