Basic Information

The National Association of Free Will Baptists dates to the ministry of Paul Palmer in the American South in the 18th century. It operates internationally through the International Fellowship of Free Will Baptist Churches, a structure that has emerged as the missionary program has matured.

Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	2,461	2,466	+5 (0.2%)
Adherents	293,448	254,170	-39,278 (-13.4%)

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/grc.

History data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches [More information on history data sources]