Denominational Profile

History

	Brethren Church (Ashland, Ohio) (1882)	continuedBrethren Church (Ashland, Ohio)
		split into National Fellowship of Brethren Churches (1939)

The Brethren Church (Ashland, Ohio) was founded in 1882 by Henry R. Holsinger and former members of the Church of the Brethren. During the 1930s, a group supportive of a dispensational fundamentalist doctrinal position left the church to found the National Fellowship of Brethren Churches, now the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches.

Membership Data

Year	Clergy	Churches	Members
1925	305	206	25,797
1929	295	170	27,847
1935	204	168	27,520
1937	-	176	30,426
1952	147	108	18,737
1953	158	109	18,610
1954	159	98	18,979
1955	160	107	18,672
1956	159	110	18,697
1957	156	108	19,474
1958	156	108	19,474
1959	151	114	18,207
1962	145	116	18,445
1964	149	120	18,013
1969	152	119	17,329
1970	130	119	17,114
1971	130	119	16,357
1974	170	119	16,279
1975	156	121	16,065
1976	164	122	15,920
1977	137	124	15,619
1978	160	122	15,082
1982	179	125	14,857
1983	175	124	14,410
1984	-	122	14,229
1988	173	124	14,753
1989	176	126	13,155
1990	175	124	13,060
1991	178	124	13,322
1992	177	124	13,132
1993	182	121	13,117
1994	183	121	13,028
1995	181	121	13,578
1996	181	119	13,746
1997	186	117	13,856
1998	175	116	13,494
1999	180	118	13,227
2000	171	119	13,096
2001	179	119	10,381
2002	184	117	10,287
2003	202	115	10,240
2004	202	115	10,240
2006	202	119	10,387
2008	181	116	10,106
2009	219	112	10,227

Data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Denomination descriptions provided by Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR). [More information on data sources]