Church Healthcare Network to Serve America's Uninsured ECHO, Empowering Church Healthcare Outreach, is making steady progress in providing quality medical care to America's uninsured. After working with Leadership Network to build a Leadership Community of churches involved in healthcare ministries, ECHO was launched in 2007 to empower more churches to get engaged in providing healthcare to people in need in their communities.  With a goal to start 10,000 primary-care clinics by 2030 and provide quality medical care for more than 20 million uninsured people in the United States, it is currently helping 9 churches--four in Texas--start clinics. "It is so clearly an extension of the gospel," says Tim Dammon, executive director of ECHO. "Jesus himself clearly called the church to be engaged with the poor and to meet needs. When I sit down and talk to pastors, there has not been one who has said that this is not what the New Testament church ought to be doing. I think that is what makes me so passionate about this." ECHO recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Baptist General Convention of Texas documenting the groups' mutual interest to help affiliated churches launch healthcare ministries. Dammon also plans to attend the BGCT annual meeting to inform pastors how their churches can start primary-care clinics. Read the following article that describes how a Tyler, TX church was helped. Reasons Young Adults Drop Out of Church Earlier this year, LifeWay Research released a study on reasons 18 to 22 year olds drop out of church. According to the study, 70% of young adults ages 23-30 stopped attending church regularly for at least a year between ages 18-22. In most cases, the decision to leave was not planned far in advance. Only 20% of these "church dropouts" agree that while they were attending church regularly in high school they "planned on taking a break from church once [they] finished high school." Life changes or life situations cause young people to leave the church. In fact, 97% of dropouts list one or more specific life-change issues as a reason they left church. Six of the top 10 reasons church dropouts leave relate to life changes. The most frequent reason for leaving church is, in fact, a self-imposed change, "I simply wanted a break from church" (27%). The paths toward college and the workforce are also strong reasons for young people to leave church: "I moved to college and stopped attending church" (25%) and "work responsibilities prevented me from attending" (23%). 58% of church dropouts selected at least one church or pastor-related reason for leaving church. Most common was, "church members seemed judgmental or hypocritical" (26%). Another 20% "didn't feel connected to the people in my church." Nearly Half of Web Users Search Daily On a typical day, 49% of U.S. Internet users use search technology to either find web sites or search within a particular site, up from about 30% in 2004 and 40% in 2005, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a unit of Pew Research Center. Pew found that the use of Internet search rises along with education and income. Among consumers with incomes of $50,000 or more, at least 56% search on a typical day, compared to less than 40% for those with incomes under $50,000. While 66% of college graduates are likely to search on a typical day, the figure is 32% for consumers with no more than a high school diploma.