church planting, U.S. Mission America Placement Service (MAPS), intercultural ministries, Teen Challenge, and Youth Alive. MAPS offers volunteers the opportunity to contribute to U.S. missions in several ways. One is through church construction and evangelism, and another is through short or long term missions through summer and missionary associate programs. Youth Alive oversees missionary outreach to elementary and high schools. In 2010, U.S. Missions reported 1,059 appointed missionaries, candidates, and spouses. The same year, it reported 542 endorsed chaplains. Ministries The following are some of the ministries and programs of the Assemblies of God USA: Boys and Girls Missionary Challenge Convoy of Hope Chi Alpha Mpact Girls Clubs Royal Rangers Teen and Junior Bible Quiz Education In the United States, the Assemblies of God endorses 10 Bible colleges, 7 universities, and the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary. Enrollment for all AG endorsed colleges and universities was 15,584 for 2013. Assemblies of God churches operate 842 Christian schools, which may have membership with the Association of Christian Teachers and Schools (ACTS), incorporated as the Association of Assemblies of God Christian Schools in 1992. In 2008, there were 105,563 students enrolled in these schools. Publishing The Assemblies of God operates Gospel Publishing House, located in Springfield, Missouri, which publishes books, curriculum, and church ministry resources primarily for Pentecostals and charismatics, but also for the general evangelical market. The Assemblies of God publishes an official weekly magazine, the Pentecostal Evangel, and Enrichment Journal, a resource for Pentecostal ministers. Demographics The Assemblies of God in the United States "has grown steadily during the 20th century". In 1925, there were just 50,386 members in 909 churches, but by the early 1970s membership had reached 1 million. Its most rapid growth occurred from 1971 to 1984, when the AG grew from a constituency of around 1 million to 2 million over a 13-year period. In 2020, average Sunday morning worship attendance for all AG churches in the U.S. was 1,993,370 people a drop of 1.7 percent from the previous year. In 2021, the AG's U.S. adherents declined to 2,932,466 in 12,830 churches; it had 37,557 ministers and 1,675,113 weekly attendees. This was in contrast with 2018's 3,233,385 adherents spread throughout 13,017 churches, 38,119 ministers, and 2,027,574 weekly church-goers. The ethnic diversity of the American AG has historically increased among the Hispanic and Latino communities; however, its constituency is still largely white. From 1990 to 2000, there