Bishop Kenneth C. Ulmer is senior pastor-teacher of Faithful Central Bible Church in Inglewood., Calif. Most of the more than 13,000 members of his congregation are single. The church has a You Are Not Alone single parent ministry. In 2011, he was named as a member of the commission for Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability (ECFA).

Bishop Noel Jones is pastor of the Los Angeles-area City of Refuge Church, which has more than 10,000 members. He has established the FaithMate.com dating Web site for single Christians.

Art Gorman is pastor for single adult ministries at Bethel Church of San Jose, Calif.

Carmen Sirianni is the Morris Hillquit Professor of Labor and Social Thought at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. He is an expert on the role social networks play in youth civic engagement.

Jon E. Singletary directs the Center for Family and Community Ministries at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.

Dale Piscura is associate/counseling pastor in Sevenoseven, the young adult ministry at Cuyahoga Valley Church in Broadview Heights, Ohio.

J. Bradley Wigger directs the Center for Congregations and Family Ministries at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.

Steve McLeod, who is associate dean at Harding University Graduate School of Religion in Memphis, Tenn., wrote his dissertation on “Assimilating singles into a family-focused church.” He says issues worth examining are whether older singles want to participate in singles groups, and whether single adults in general prefer to stick with their lifelong religious affiliation […]

Tom and Bev Rodgers of Charlotte, N.C., have been married for 34 years. They co-direct a Christian counseling practice and wrote The Singlehood Phenomenon: 10 Brutally Honest Reasons People Aren’t Getting Married.