Benefits of Regular Church Attendance:

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Benefits of Regular Church Attendance:: On this Easter Weekend we're showing the myriad benefits of regular church attendance.  While this may not surprise believers it might surprise non-believers.  Amazing but regular religious attendance has been shown to:

Frequent religious attendance tends to increase students’ total years of schooling. Students who attend church weekly while growing up have significantly more years of total schooling by their early 30s than peers who do not attend church at all.

The benefits that students receive from weekly religious attendance are equivalent to the benefits that come from a mother who has three years of extra education and a father with four years of extra education. 

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