Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	23	104	+81 (352.2%)
Adherents	--	35,586	(%)

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

Membership Data [Download .csv Data]

Year	Clergy	Congregations	Members
1952	102	84	70,000
1953	102	93	71,000
1954	102	92	71,248
1955	104	93	71,940
1956	112	91	83,000
1957	118	90	83,000
1958	115	90	84,000
1959	118	92	84,500
1960	120	96	85,000
1961	124	98	86,700
1962	126	100	87,000
1963	125	100	87,000
1964	127	104	87,200
1965	130	105	87,250
1966	131	107	87,745
2000	124	115	13,000
2006	114	118	50,000

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.

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]