Snapshot

	1990^*	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	n.a.	192	--
Adherents	n.a.	64,186	--

Year-by-Year (Click on a point to see data)

Membership Data [Download .csv Data]

Year	Clergy	Congregations	Members
1983	245	250	173,500
1984	300	290	185,000
1986	-	350	200,000
1987	350	350	200,000
1988	350	200	200,000
1989	350	200	250,000
1990	350	210	250,000
1991	-	398	250,000
1992	616	410	500,000
1993	616	423	500,000
1994	619	423	500,000
1995	501	517	250,000
1998	263	150	250,000
1999	296	180	200,000
2000	352	217	200,263
2002	340	192	115,812
2003	374	126	108,806
2004	374	137	108,806
2005	374	150	108,806
2006	591	157	73,174

Notes

Snapshot

Data are from Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 and Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org.

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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]