"Every group in the church has unique needs and gifts… children, youth, men, women, marrieds etc. Because we have put emphasis on these groups for so long, we have inadvertently forgotten the singles and have led them to believe we don't expect them to be involved in ministry. The apostle Paul said that for ministry it is better to be single! (I Cor. 7: 25-35) The purpose of ministry to singles is to help them see they ARE the church and to help them come to a place of ministry."

 IMPACT Director Pastor George NDinga

Statistics
95.9 million – Number of unmarried Americans 18 and older (43 percent of all U.S. residents 18 and older)
53% - Percentage of unmarried Americans 18 and older who were women
61% - Percentage of unmarried Americans 18 and older who had never been married - Another 24 percent were divorced, and 15 percent were widowed.
32.2 million - Number of people who live alone. They comprised 28 percent of all households, up from 17 percent in 1970.

 Out of the divorces, widowhood, the singles bars, clubs, apartments and condominiums, comes a torrent of need, and it is flowing right past the door of our churches. ...there is boundless talent and creativity in this flood of single adults. The church can help and it can also be helped. It can give and it can receive. OPPORTUNITY IS THERE! WHAT WILL WE DO?"

 It is time, even PAST TIME that the church became aware and involved with the numbers of, needs and issues of the single and single-again people all around us. We need to develop a mentality of acceptance, wholeness and MINISTRY TO, FOR AND THROUGH this ever-increasing segment of society. It is time for the church to think new thoughts...to be bold and creative as it reaches out to an increasingly "non family community.”