Springfield, MO MSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

117,715	31,237	111	17,314	4,304	155,040
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
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+104	10.6%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+7,005	51.1%
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+21	30.4%
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+29	16.8%
Catholic Church	Catholic	0	+4,833	38.7%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-39	-60.0%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	+2	+576	10.7%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+1,404	71.3%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	-83	-25.5%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+2	+338	118.2%
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-2	-12.5%
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1	3.2%
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	+4	+1,232	64.7%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-14	-37.8%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	+199	12.4%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+57	1.1%
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	+1	-58	-18.0%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	+1	+169	9.5%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+113	11.0%
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	0	-6	-25.0%
Fundamental Methodist Conference, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	0	-92	-39.1%
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+575	46.9%
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	-4	-5,821	-67.4%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	-1	+308	211.0%
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	-18	-58.1%
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	0	+16	5.6%
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+624	19.6%
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	0	+120	6.0%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-32	-5.3%
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	+84	43.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	-1	-181	-3.8%
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	0	+223	119.3%
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+199	168.6%
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+104	14.6%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	0	+8,970	14.7%
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	0	-70	-29.5%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	0	-24	-3.7%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	+2	+201	1.3%
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+125	312.5%
	Totals:	+13	+21,190	+14.4%

The population of these 3 counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 264,346; in 2000 it was 325,721. The total population changed 23.2%. The adherent totals for 1990 (148,853) represent 56.3% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (170,681) include 52.4% 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 147,039 adherents in 1990 and 168,229 adherents in 2000, for a change of 14.4%

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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