Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	1,121	1,191	+70 (6.2%)
Adherents	--	224,306	(%)

Year-by-Year

Membership Data

Year	Clergy	Churches	Members
1955	1,600	998	250,000
1956	1,100	1,000	250,000
1957	1,600	1,072	275,000
1958	2,000	1,300	275,000
1959	1,800	1,300	275,000
1960	2,500	1,350	300,000
1961	1,200	1,351	300,000
1962	-	1,403	300,000
1963	2,000	1,550	300,000
1964	-	1,500	300,000
1965	2,500	1,500	325,000
1968	-	1,143	300,000
1970	-	1,127	300,000
1974	-	1,120	300,000
1976	-	1,117	300,000
1977	-	1,114	300,000
1979	-	1,125	225,000
1980	-	1,126	225,000
1982	-	1,140	225,000
1988	-	1,121	204,496
1989	1,324	1,126	210,000
1992	-	1,084	200,000
1998	-	1,200	200,000
2002	2,100	1,200	200,000

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/grc.

Year-by-Year

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]