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Highlights for 2001—Telling the Story

by Freda A. Gardner
Moderator 211th General Assembly

  
     
 

In 2000, Geneva Press published what we often call a "coffee table book" — Presbyterians: A Spiritual Journey. Recently I re-read it and, in pictures and words, the reality that is the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) began again to breathe. This book, together with the Mission Yearbook for Prayer and Study, tells the story of our church, of us, as we are and as we have been. [Read more]

  
     
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  Some tables are not formatted exactly as they appeared in the print version of Comparative Statistics 2001 and we apologize for these changes. We assure you that no data were affected by the formatting changes.  
             
 
  1. PC(USA) Congregations and Membership: 1991-2001
  2. Distribution of PC(USA) Congregations by Church Membership Size and Synod—2001
  3. PC(USA) Membership by Region and State/Territory—2001
  4. Membership Gains and Losses of PC(USA) Synods and Presbyteries—2001
  5. PC(USA) Congregations with One-Fifth or More Minority Racial/Ethnic Membership by Synod—2001
  6. Fifteen Largest Congregations Based on Membership Size—2001
  7. Descriptive Statistics of PC(USA) Ministers
  8. PC(USA) Ministers by Call and Synod—2001
  9. Number and Percent of PC(USA) Ministers by Call: 1996-2001
  10. PC(USA) Membership, Total Contributions, and Local Program and Local Mission Information By Synod and Presbytery—2000 and 2001
  11. Congregational Receipts—2000 and 2001
  12. Congregational Expenditures—2000 and 2001
  13. Synod and Presbytery Rankings Based on Per Member Validated Mission Expenditures—2001
  14. Race/Ethnicity and Gender of PC(USA) Members, Elders, Deacons, Ministers, and Commissioned Lay Pastors—2001
  15. Congregations, How They Are Served, Giving Information, and Worship Attendance by Church Membership Size—2001
 
   
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  1. Median Congregational Size by Synod, 2001
  2. Membership Change, 1991-2001, by Synod
  3. Worship Attendance as a Percentage of Membership by Size, 2001
  4. Congregations Without an Installed Pastor by Size, 2001
 
             
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