Baptism Rates and Public Evangelistic Campaign Correlation

Executive summary

Public evangelistic campaigns (reaping meetings, evangelistic series) remain the most visible and resource-intensive evangelistic method in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Large-scale coordinated campaigns have produced dramatic baptism surges — 87,000 across Inter-America in four months, 260,000+ in Papua New Guinea during a multi-site campaign, and 23,000+ in Chiapas, Mexico through the "All the Family in Mission" initiative. However, no rigorous statistical analysis exists correlating campa...