Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	35	38	+3 (8.6%)
Adherents	3,722	4,236	+514 (13.8%)

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

Membership Data [Download .csv Data]

Year	Clergy	Congregations	Members
1961	15	21	3,467
1962	15	21	3,431
1963	16	20	2,519
1964	15	20	3,487
1965	18	20	2,554
1967	19	20	3,423
1969	23	23	3,853
1971	25	25	4,038
1973	21	24	4,008
1974	22	24	3,940
1975	26	26	3,960
1976	25	26	3,861
1977	31	26	3,790
1980	27	29	3,660
1982	32	30	3,710
1984	33	33	3,807
1985	34	34	3,778
1992	36	37	4,178
1993	38	37	4,204
1994	40	36	4,172
1995	39	41	4,250
1997	42	38	4,246
1998	42	40	4,257
2002	50	48	4,369

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.

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]