More than 50% of visitors to the popular social network site are now 35 or over vs. less than 40% last year. Meanwhile, the proportion of MySpace's age 12 to 24 visitors has dropped to 30% from 44.3% reports comScore Media Metrix. This suggests MySpace is increasingly becoming a mainstream Internet portal. Social networking has become a phenomenon like blogging that transcends group boundaries.

UK Church Attendance decline has been slowed by the influx of Christians from Africa and Europe finds The 2005 English Church Census. From '98 to '05, 500,000 people stopped going to a Christian church on Sunday, yet black-led Pentecostal churches in immigrant communities gained about 100,000 worshippers since '98. Blacks now make up 10% of all Sunday churchgoers, while other non-white groups add another 7%. Yet, while 1,000 new people are joining a church each week, 2,500 are leaving. Just 6.3% go to church on an average Sunday, vs. 7.5% in ?98. 29% of UK churchgoers are 65 or over vs. just 16% of the population and 9% of churches have no one under the age of 11 in attendance. Why do you think this is the case?

Last Wednesday two dozen prominent evangelicals issued a joint appeal for President Bush to take the lead in sending a multinational, U.N.-backed peacekeeping force into the Darfur region of Sudan. Check out the Evangelicals for Darfur website to find out more.

Have you heard about Product Red? This is a new effort spearheaded by Bono and his DATA organization to provide financial resources for AIDS crises in Africa by providing the American consumer with options. Check out the website http://www.joinred.com/.

Catalyst recently came across the http://www.rosaloves.com/ website. This movement is a great example of how to impact culture on a tangible scale. Check out what happened when gifted designers had an idea to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina with the limited resources they have. There are also some pretty amazing shirts!