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Demographic and Community Information or Find a Church? Zip Code or City and State? How in the World Do I Use This Map? I Clicked Identify a Church and Nothing Happened! How Do I Know What the Shaded Areas Mean? My Church is in Canada! I Still Have a Question! Other Information About This Site...

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Demographic and Community Information or Find a Church?

If you're just looking for a church or maybe for information about a church then the Find a Church page is for you. You will be shown a map with churches mapped accordingly and when you select a church some neat information (pastor, address, phone, etc.) will appear. Some people are more interested in finding demographic information around their neighborhood or church and the Demographic page certainly does just that. In addition to doing everything the Find a Church page does, this one shows information about any selected area and also displays graphs providing more visual representations of certain facts.

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Zip Code or City and State?

This website is very picky about spelling and if you don't have the name of the city spelled just the way it expects it then you won't have any luck finding your location. (For instance: St. Paul and not Saint Paul) If you do run into trouble finding an area then try using the zip code or a nearby city.

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How in the World Do I Use This Map?

The map is interactive. A small menu directly over it shows what will happen when you click on it. For instance, if "Zoom In 400%" is selected then every time you click on the map it will zoom in by four hundred percent. Note that when zooming or panning the spot you click will become the new center point of the map. On the demographics page when you select a tract or identify a church the map will zoom in/out to accomodate tracts within three miles of your selection.

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I Clicked Identify a Church and Nothing Happened!

Church information and graphs (on the demographic page) will appear on the page below the map. Simply scroll the page down to see your requested data. Alternatively, the words "Click here to see your selection." will appear toward the top of the page when you request information. Clicking this link will jump you down to your data.

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How Do I Know What the Shaded Areas Mean?

If you're viewing the Standard version of this site you will see a legend pop up whenever demographic areas are selected. The Detailed version of this page will have a link to open the legend in a new window. Look for this underneath the map.

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My Church is in Canada!

Currently we only have detailed information for the United States. We do have the details and locations for churches in Canada, though. To see them click here. Please note that we do not have street, city, or highway information available at this time.

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I Still Have a Question!

If you were unable to get an answer to your question or you have another need then by all means feel free to email us at Research@Nazarene.org anytime. We try to balance everyone's suggestions and feasible solutions in a practical manner. Please don't hesitate to contact us.

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Other Information About This Site...

The main programming behind the maps was done by Robin Paone using MapObjects 2.0 and Visual Basic. Additional programming fixes, web page construction, and the programming for the graphs was done by Mark Jones. The bitmap to GIF converter is courtesy of Softuarium. Special thanks to Wes Garrison for the graph concept and original page work.

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