357 Lost Sheep Found!

I found a bug in my extraction software, which caused failure to pickup 357 churches! It also caused an unknown number of churches to be a combination of two churches. I am currently added the churches and verifying the data. I will post again when I have verified all of the data. I am very busy at work, so it may take a little time.

Leaving Statistics

I've added some leaving statistics (Post-Pup) to the presbytery summary page.

UPDATED: 3:30pm ct 2/18/2008

data	Leaving	Gone	Total
Churches	11	36	47
Members	3,324	10,302	13,626
Income	$3,745,455	$6,394,510	$10,139,965

Covenant of Fort Myers - SPLIT

Covenant PC of Fort Myers, FL has an Administrative Commission appointed by the Presbytery of Peace River. This means a split will occur 762-237. News Press Story

GA-PJC: PUP does NOT allow scruples on G-6.0106b!

The General Assembly - Permanent Judicial Council has ruled: decision

PCUSA (Outlook) news story:Top court prohibits scrupling fidelity-chastity standard

OGA has commented: Advisory Opinion 21

Reformed Paster Blog:More Light Sheds Less Light

Ga Junkie Blog: PC(USA) GAPJC Decisions -- Walking a Center Line?

Statistics of PCUSA

Size	Churches	Worship	% Total Churches	% Total Worship	Size	Sub Totals Churches	Sub Totals Worship	Sub Totals Churches	Sub Totals Worship
0-10	2,295	1,720	22%	0.2%	0-100	7,700	269,129	72%	27%
10-25	1,144	21,733	11%	2%
25-50	1,915	72,722	18%	7%
50-75	1,347	84,862	13%	8%
75-100	999	88,092	9%	9%
100-150	1,108	138,025	10%	14%	100-200	1,700	241,410	16%	24%
150-200	592	103,385	6%	10%
200-300	596	146,841	6%	14%	200-500	1,040	315,104	10%	31%
300-400	305	106,125	3%	10%
400-500	139	62,138	1%	6%
500-1000	165	113,216	2%	11%	> 500	214	189,671	2%	19%
>1000	49	76,455	0.5%	8%
Totals	10,654	1,015,314	100%	100%	-	-	-	-	-

PC(USA) Statistics for 2006

Members	2,159,637
Inactive	435,702
Worship	1,015,314
CE	1,021,339
Gain	+110,754
Lost	-154,714
Bap Inf	+28,256
Death	-33,450

UPDATED 2x 11 year Data + Inactive,Gain,Lost,Birth,Death,PerCap

I added 11 years worth of data to my database. I also added 2006: Inactive, Gain, Lost, Birth, Death to the Presbytery summary. I have CSV (spreadsheet) files for each Presbytery - just ask. As soon as my real site is up the files will be up for everyone. Just Added Per-Capita $42 Million Total Update 2: Added Mission Exp, Capital Exp, Building Income, Pgm Exp

New Page - News Stories

I added a page with only the news stories. Newest to oldest. Easier way to find out what is new.

Why was "Under God" added to the Pledge of allegence?

An excerpt from Wikipedia:

"The Knights of Columbus in New York City felt that the pledge was incomplete without any reference to a deity. Appealing to the authority of Abraham Lincoln, the Knights felt that the words "under God" which were from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address were most appropriate to add to the Pledge."

"It was a Presbyterian minister who made the difference in 1954 by preaching a sermon about Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. The minister was George MacPherson Docherty, a native of Scotland who was called to succeed Peter Marshall as pastor of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church near the White House, where, in 1863, the same year as the address, Lincoln attended and even rented a pew. After Lincoln’s death, the pew that he rented became something of a national monument. It became customary for later United States presidents to attend services at the church and sit in the Lincoln pew on the Sunday closest to Lincoln’s birthday (February 12) each year."