Monday, February 22, 2010

Church Membership Rises in USA 1/2 percent

From The Christian Post Story: or NCC website

NOTICE: only about half of the denominations have reported.

Guess who has the largest lost?

20102009DenominationMembershipChange
--Total147,384,631↑ 0.49 %
11The Catholic Church68,115,001↑ 1.49 %
22Southern Baptist Convention16,228,438↓ 0.24 %
33The United Methodist Church7,853,987↓ 0.98 %
44The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints5,974,041↑ 1.71 %
55The Church of God in Christ5,499,875?
66National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc5,000,000?
77Evangelical Lutheran Church in America4,633,887↓ 1.62 %
88National Baptist Convention of America, Inc.3,500,000?
910Assemblies of God2,899,702↑ 1.27 %
109Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)2,844,952↓ 3.28 %
1111African Methodist Episcopal Church2,500,000?
1212National Missionary Baptist Convention of America2,500,000?
1313Progressive National Baptist Convention2,500,000?
1414The Lutheran Church-- Missouri Synod (LCMS)2,337,349↓ 1.92 %
1515The Episcopal Church2,057,292↓ 2.81 %
1616Churches of Christ1,639,495?
1717Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America1,500,000?
1818Pentecostal Assemblies of the World1,500,000?
1919The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church1,400,000?
2020American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.1,331,127↓ 2.00 %
2122Baptist Bible Fellowship International1,200,000?
2223Jehovah’s Witnesses1,114,009↑ 2.00 %
2322United Church of Christ1,111,691↓ 2.93 %
2425Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)1,072,169↑ 1.76 %
2524Christian Churches and Churches of Christ1,071,616?
? no membership updates reported

Monday, February 1, 2010

Roseville and Fair Oaks vs Sacramento - Local Churches loses

Google found a new legal website for me:

Leagal: Popularizing the Law™
(Search millions of pages of law with a single query)

It contains the text of Roseville vs Presbytery of Sacramento Appeal

Also from Metropolitan News-Enterprise: C.A. Reverses Ruling Giving Local Churches Control of Property

Layman finally has the story.

If you search for Presbytery, it contains many more property cases.

A Little History