Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	120	115	-5 (-4.2%)
Adherents	2,526	1,864	-662 (-26.2%)

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

Membership Data [Download .csv Data]

Year	Clergy	Congregations	Members
1986	199	122	2,474
1987	199	122	2,434
1989	202	124	2,306
1990	204	120	2,155
1991	191	117	2,130
1992	183	122	1,934
1993	191	120	2,043
1994	188	120	2,056
1995	187	119	2,058
1996	188	118	2,035
1997	188	115	2,013
1998	189	117	1,961
2000	185	115	1,864
2001	179	111	1,830
2002	173	110	1,803
2003	170	109	1,765
2004	170	110	1,694
2005	165	109	1,636
2006	164	103	1,578
2007	158	94	1,506
2008	158	102	1,456

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]