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Snapshot

  1990 2000* Growth/Decline
Congregations 79 n.a. --
Adherents 14,545 n.a. --


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Year Clergy Congregations Members
1988 80 78 15,150
1993 164 94 22,061
1995 109 91 17,973
1996 131 90 19,629
1997 144 90 18,704
1998 141 103 19,128
1999 141 101 18,252
2004 187 84 25,908
2006 187 73 26,537
2007 116 70 16,000
2008 120 70 16,000

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.

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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]