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Saginaw-Bay City-Midland, MI MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

75,210 35,788 660 93,855 2,155 195,402
Evangelical Protestant Mainline Protestant Orthodox Catholic Other Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports


Religious Bodies Theology Congregations Adherents % Change
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The Evangelical Protestant +1 +90 49.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant +1 +117 42.7%
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc. Evangelical Protestant 0 +115 40.4%
Baptist Missionary Association of America Evangelical Protestant 0 -68 -70.1%
Brethren In Christ Church Evangelical Protestant 0 +19 61.3%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Mainline Protestant 0 -118 -42.9%
Christian Reformed Church in North America Evangelical Protestant 0 +7 5.0%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) Evangelical Protestant 0 -148 -12.1%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) Evangelical Protestant 0 +122 21.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The Other Theology 0 +213 17.5%
Church of the Brethren Evangelical Protestant 0 +13 27.7%
Church of the Nazarene Evangelical Protestant 0 +93 5.3%
Churches of Christ Evangelical Protestant 0 +46 7.1%
Episcopal Church Mainline Protestant 0 -1,494 -38.0%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +616 208.8%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -434 -4.4%
Evangelical Mennonite Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -5 -6.3%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Independent, Charismatic Churches Evangelical Protestant 0 0 0.0%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 +386 1.2%
Mennonite Church USA Evangelical Protestant 0 -269 -54.3%
Missionary Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +15 6.1%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches Mainline Protestant 0 -27 -21.1%
North American Baptist Conference Evangelical Protestant 0 -11 -6.4%
Pentecostal Church of God Evangelical Protestant 0 -70 -13.2%
Reformed Church in America Mainline Protestant 0 -2 -0.6%
Salvation Army, The Evangelical Protestant 0 +1,007 182.1%
Seventh-day Adventist Church Evangelical Protestant 0 -58 -5.0%
Southern Baptist Convention Evangelical Protestant 0 -74 -5.6%
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA Orthodox 0 n.a. n.a.
Wesleyan Church, The Evangelical Protestant 0 -719 -19.6%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Evangelical Protestant 0 -690 -6.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations Other Theology -1 -4 -2.3%
United Church of Christ Mainline Protestant -1 -798 -32.6%
United Methodist Church, The Mainline Protestant -1 -2,509 -17.1%
Jewish Estimate Other Theology -2 -295 -43.4%
American Baptist Churches in the USA Mainline Protestant -3 -1,828 -49.1%
Free Methodist Church of North America Evangelical Protestant -3 -234 -37.2%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) Mainline Protestant -3 -2,257 -26.9%
Assemblies of God Evangelical Protestant -4 -666 -14.7%
Catholic Church Catholic -7 -15,187 -13.9%
  Totals: -23 -25,106 -11.5%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 399,320; in 2000 it was 403,070. The total population changed 0.9%. The adherent totals for 1990 (233,949) represent 58.6% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (207,668) include 51.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 39 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 39 groups had 218,036 adherents in 1990 and 192,930 adherents in 2000, for a change of -11.5%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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