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FIVE YEAR SUMMARY OF THE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA
STATISTICS

  1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
Presbyteries  56 57 58 58 60
Churches 1,163 1,171 1,184 1,206 1,215
Missions 175 185 220 199 243
Ministers 2,573 2,692 2,815 2,873 2,980
Candidates 546 499 575 560 639
Licentiates 151 149 163 166 166
Profession of Faith by Adults 4,619 5,116 5,253 5,620 5,541
Communicants 218,276 224,855 230,331 236,361 244,030
Non-communicants 57,050 55,834 56,760 59,821 59,146
Total Membership
(Comm, Non-comm, Ministers)		 277,899 283,381 289,906 299,055 303,176
Family Units 104,882 116,719 120,017 124,528 124,287
Sunday School Attendance 116,921 117,177 117,573 121,325 119,166
Adult Baptisms 1,912 2,345 2,297 2,344 2,539
Infant Baptisms 5,081 5,328 5,173 5,425 5,182
Total Contributions 337,081,407 369,771,326 402,161,159 457,136,376 484,362,998
Per Capita Giving 1,571 1,666 1,771 1,934 1,985
Assembly Causes 18,204,599 21,222,820 21,813,555 21,167,349 21,349,336
Presbytery Causes 3,136,607 3,243,488 3,632,174 4,772,831 6,093,349
Congregation Benevolences 41,160,573 45,707,936 46,919,922 70,391,946 71,158,112
Total Benevolences 62,501,779 70,174,244 72,366,451 96,415,462 98,600,797
Per Capita Benevolences 291 316 319 408 404
Congregational Current Expenses 205,818,068 230,589,105 254,363,007 264,411,338 298,078,916
Congregational Building Expenditures 65,801,172 75,334,911 74,560,359 77,037,817 86,830,127
Total All Disbursements 334,121,019 376,098,260 401,289,817 437,864,617 483,509,840

 

 

(1) These numbers represent only those churches reporting statistics.

(2) Presbytery and Assembly per capita giving was figured only for those congregations reporting financial statistics.