As part of an alliance between the Your Church team at Christianity Today International and Cornerstone Knowledge Network, the two organizations collaborated on a joint research project to better understand the growth in U.S. churches and its underlying factors.

This research aims to understand overall church experience and church plans for facilities expansion. It explores church growth in attendance, types of worship associated with the growth, and how churches are accommodating such growth. In addition, the study aims to compare respondents' reactions to different images of church buildings (both exteriors and interiors) to learn what types of design they would most likely create if they are going to build or design a new church facility in the near future.

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Cell phone use continues to grow, and cell phone companies have become desperate to find suitable locations for new towers. The sheer number of users has overwhelmed the existing cell phone tower network. Around every U.S. city lay large numbers of cell phone "dead zones." These areas suffer frequent dropped calls, static, or busy signals caused by inadequate cell phone tower coverage. For example, in New York City—the largest cell phone market in the United States—at least 200 known dead zones exists.