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  Comparative Statistics 2000  
             
  Highlights for 2000 — Comparative Statistics 2000  
             
  Introduction by Cynthia M. Campbell
President, McCormick Theological Seminary
 
             
  The fourth Book of Moses is known in English as "Numbers," so named because it begins with a census, the counting of God's people and identifying them by clan groups. Among other things, such lists remind us that people count. To Israel and to God, it mattered who was born and who gave birth, and that someone kept track of all of that. [Read more]  
             
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Note: Each table below is presented in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format only. Some tables are not formatted exactly as they appeared in the print version of Comparative Statistics 2000 and we apologize for these changes. We assure you that no data were affected by the formatting changes.

  1. PC(USA) Congregations and Membership: 1990-2000
  2. Distribution of PC(USA) Congregations by Church Membership Size and Synod—2000
  3. PC(USA) Membership by Region and State/Territory—2000
  4. Membership Gains and Losses of PC(USA) Synods and Presbyteries—2000
  5. PC(USA) Congregations with One-Fifth or More Minority Racial/Ethnic Membership by Synod—2000
  6. Fifteen Largest Congregations Based on Membership Size—2000
  7. Descriptive Statistics of PC(USA) Ministers
  8. PC(USA) Ministers by Call and Synod—2000
  9. Number and Percent of PC(USA) Ministers by Call: 1995-2000
  10. PC(USA) Membership, Total Contributions, and Local Program and Local Mission Information By Synod and Presbytery—1999 and 2000
  11. Congregational Receipts—1999 and 2000
  12. Congregational Expenditures—1999 and 2000
  13. Synod and Presbytery Rankings Based on Per Member Validated Mission Expenditures—2000
  14. Race/Ethnicity and Gender of PC(USA) Members, Elders, Deacons, Ministers, and Commissioned Lay Pastors—2000
  15. Congregations, How They Are Served, Giving Information, and Worship Attendance by Church Membership Size—2000
 
             
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  1. Church School Enrollment by Age, 1994-2000
  2. Percent of Active Clergy and of Candidates Who Are Women, 1984-2000
  3. Contributions Per Member in Congregations of Various Sizes, 1989-2000
  4. Number of Active Ministers, Pastors, and Other Active Ministers, 1985-2000
 
     
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