Number of Congregations	Number of Members	Median Size of Congregations	Membership Change 1995-1996		Net Gain or Loss	Percent of Gain or Loss 1995-1996
				Total Gains	Total Losses
Alaska-Northwest	272	62,065	131	4,613	4,514	99	0.16
Alaska Central Washington Inland Northwest North Puget Sound	15 44 49 33	1,343 9,119 9,974 7,645	57 121 90 227	99 508 718 724	115 433 693 603	-16 75 25 121	-1.18 0.83 0.25 1.61
Olympia Seattle Yukon	48 61 22	10,835 19,903 3,246	132 184 81	735 1,577 252	853 1,518 299	-118 59 -47	-1.08 0.30 -1.43
Boriquen en Puerto Rico	71	8,385	91	561	1,068	-507	-5.70
Noreste (Northwest) San Juan Suroeste (Southeast)	29 14 28	3,974 2,113 2,298	104 103 67	286 79 196	810 133 125	-524 -54 71	-11.65 -2.49 3.19
Covenant	824	224,904	160	12,093	16,716	-4,623	-2.01
Cincinnati Detroit Eastminster Lake Huron	86 91 58 58	22,444 42,017 16,312 15,604	145 303 254 139	1,177 2,513 683 687	2,134 3,785 1,087 889	-957 -1,272 -404 -202	-4.09 -2.94 -2.42 -1.28
Lake Michigan Mackinac Maumee Valley Miami	70 41 84 67	22,299 7,271 16,333 19,082	229 97 127 191	1,115 434 803 1,023	1,571 365 901 1,348	-456 69 -98 -325	-2.00 0.96 -0.60 -1.67
Muskingum Valley Scioto Valley Western Reserve	100 113 56	16,882 28,794 17,866	91 132 219	824 1,739 1,095	1,142 2,208 1,286	-318 -469 -191	-1.85 -1.60 -1.06
Lakes and Prairies	966	195,034	119	10,219	13,284	-3,065	-1.55
Central Nebraska Dakota Des Moines East Iowa	42 23 66 85	8,197 1,101 12,367 19,498	105 46 125 154	330 - 763 887	497 - 890 949	-167 - -127 -62	-2.00 - -1.02 -0.32
Homestead John Knox Milwaukee Minnesota Valleys	61 64 51 68	12,689 12,171 12,612 13,400	98 132 162 143	617 627 772 572	885 879 732 896	-268 -252 40 -324	-2.07 -2.03 0.32 -2.36
Missouri River Valley North Central Iowa Northern Plains Northern Waters	58 55 77 65	14,631 11,189 9,465 8,932	166 144 53 74	869 528 419 428	1,028 811 690 813	-159 -283 -271 -385	-1.08 -2.47 -2.78 -4.13
Lakes and Prairies (cont.)	966	195,034	119	10,219	13,284	-3,065	-1.55
Prospect Hill South Dakota Twin Cities Area Winnebago	59 73 77 42	11,020 10,236 28,093 9,433	134 88 190 143	432 466 2,040 469	626 643 2,306 639	-194 -177 -266 -170	-1.73 -1.70 -0.94 -1.77
Lincoln Trails	716	167,212	130	9,443	13,703	-4,260	-2.48
Blackhawk Chicago Great Rivers Midwest Hanmi	89 118 119 17	20,876 43,315 24,651 2,517	179 175 124 45	1,188 2,712 1,168 286	1,192 4,503 2,031 391	-4 -1,791 -863 -105	-0.02 -3.97 -3.38 -4.00
Ohio Valley Southeastern Illinois Wabash Valley Whitewater Valley	90 106 103 74	10,812 14,769 25,240 25,032	87 84 138 186	483 722 1,433 1,451	780 1,280 1,841 1,685	-297 -558 -408 -234	-2.67 -3.64 -1.59 -0.93
Living Waters	814	130,188	72	7,928	10,373	-2,445	-1.84
East Tennessee Holston Louisville Memphis	81 70 56 74	15,577 9,639 12,688 12,865	89 51 147 75	921 398 726 952	1,394 813 1,651 1,196	-473 -415 -925 -244	-2.95 -4.13 -6.79 -1.86
Middle Tennessee Mississippi North Alabama St. Andrew	96 47 36 82	18,055 7,359 6,498 7,272	61 66 100 31	1,092 633 340 534	1,364 420 493 498	-272 213 -153 36	-1.48 2.98 -2.30 0.50
Sheppards & Lapsley South Alabama Transylvania Western Kentucky	104 30 99 39	16,509 5,870 12,828 5,028	68 153 63 71	926 413 683 310	985 383 677 499	-59 30 6 -189	-0.36 0.51 0.05 -3.62
Mid-America	515	104,215	99	5,993	8,730	-2,737	-2.56
Giddings-Lovejoy Heartland John Calvin Missouri Union	104 115 65 81	27,976 30,271 9,941 10,101	120 111 77 69	1,778 1,927 588 470	2,556 2,703 682 442	-788 -776 -94 28	-2.74 -2.50 -0.94 0.28
Northern Kansas Southern Kansas	77 73	12,317 13,609	100 99	581 649	889 1,448	-308 -799	-2.44 -5.55
Mid-Atlantic	1,483	334,787	120	20,493	21,540	-1,047	-0.31
Abingdon Baltimore Charlotte Coastal Carolina	58 72 140 191	5,192 21,974 42,903 31,218	48 218 169 92	304 1,550 2,875 1,999	334 1,861 2,379 2,145	-30 -311 496 -146	-0.57 -1.40 1.17 -0.47
Mid-Atlantic (cont.)	1,483	334,787	120	20,493	21,540	-1,047	-0.31
Eastern Virginia James National Capital New Castle	66 115 120 55	19,839 28,561 37,727 14,060	160 129 201 183	1,317 1,538 2,539 765	1,118 1,301 2,678 808	199 237 -139 -43	1.01 0.84 -0.37 -0.30
New Hope Peaks Salem Shenandoah	136 145 156 111	32,697 23,269 36,494 19,065	93 79 109 126	2,455 993 1,941 904	3,484 1,241 1,815 988	-1,029 -248 126 -84	-3.05 -1.05 0.35 -0.44
Western North Carolina	118	21,788	95	1,313	1,388	-75	-0.34
Northeast	1,187	255,185	142	14,457	19,308	-4,851	-1.87
Albany Boston Cayuga-Syracuse Elizabeth	74 23 48 51	12,832 3,130 7,654 17,896	135 107 121 248	547 346 359 1,016	796 283 628 1,613	-249 63 -269 -597	-1.90 2.05 -3.40 -3.23
Genesee Valley Geneva Hudson River Long Island	74 62 96 60	19,711 9,777 20,079 13,829	185 117 145 179	911 421 1,248 835	1,227 643 1,491 1,225	-316 -222 -243 -390	-1.58 -2.22 -1.20 -2.74
Monmouth New Brunswick New York City Newark	44 43 107 45	15,994 12,849 19,142 8,915	291 198 104 141	961 806 1,036 604	1,386 930 1,042 1,037	-425 -124 -6 -433	-2.59 -0.96 -0.03 -4.63
Newton Northern New England Northern New York Palisades	66 32 41 54	17,026 3,779 4,160 10,421	187 79 71 134	1,025 311 229 725	1,400 282 300 1,080	-375 29 -71 -355	-2.16 0.77 -1.68 -3.29
Southern New England Susquehanna Valley Utica West Jersey	34 59 40 66	9,827 8,382 5,387 16,317	187 84 97 179	617 318 220 1,049	711 533 406 842	-94 -215 -186 207	-0.95 -2.50 -3.34 1.28
Western New York	68	18,078	197	873	1,453	-580	-3.11
Pacific	466	123,856	146	9,223	9,577	-354	-0.29
Boise Cascades Eastern Oregon Kendall	15 124 17 18	3,190 29,270 1,290 2,908	114 129 39 89	172 2,219 86 144	238 1,945 79 156	-66 274 7 -12	-2.03 0.94 0.55 -0.41
Nevada Redwoods Sacramento San Francisco	22 51 41 73	5,514 9,711 15,566 30,003	169 126 210 156	746 681 1,212 2,217	399 736 1,288 2,451	347 -55 -76 -234	6.72 -0.56 -0.49 -0.77
Pacific (cont.)	466	123,856	146	9,223	9,577	-354	-0.29
San Joaquin San Jose Stockton	37 45 23	8,821 12,731 4,852	139 217 161	452 978 316	642 1,326 317	-190 -348 -1	-2.11 -2.66 -0.02
Rocky Mountains	237	58,213	132	4,138	4,651	-513	-0.87
Denver Glacier Plains and Peaks Pueblo	50 20 44 28	14,702 4,166 12,970 9,586	204 103 150 130	1,139 283 744 624	1,145 410 937 692	-6 -127 -193 -68	-0.04 -2.96 -1.47 -0.70
Utah Western Colorado Wyoming Yellowstone	24 14 30 27	4,755 2,622 5,872 3,540	116 133 114 91	435 241 502 170	491 239 499 238	-56 2 3 -68	-1.16 0.08 0.05 -1.88
South Atlantic	993	297,374	150	23,567	22,138	1,429	0.48
Central Florida Charleston-Atlantic Cherokee Flint River	76 51 37 57	30,982 16,489 10,780 8,166	263 200 129 67	2,951 1,292 1,095 486	2,630 1,041 890 515	321 251 205 -29	1.05 1.55 1.94 -0.35
Florida Foothills Greater Atlanta New Harmony	43 66 110 80	9,690 22,267 48,616 14,219	113 115 235 71	715 1,549 4,408 979	834 1,170 3,468 683	-119 379 940 296	-1.21 1.73 1.97 2.13
Northeast Georgia Peace River Providence St. Augustine	60 38 60 63	9,386 22,918 8,731 20,111	79 507 68 215	646 1,649 627 1,684	586 1,833 472 2,009	60 -184 155 -325	0.64 -0.80 1.81 -1.59
Savannah Tampa Bay Trinity Tropical Florida	39 78 71 64	6,980 29,114 18,779 20,146	94 250 93 179	405 2,366 1,526 1,189	585 2,631 1,054 1,737	-180 -265 472 -548	-2.51 -0.90 2.58 -2.65
Southern California and Hawaii*	316	104,489	180	8,688	9,757	-1,069	-1.01
Hanmi* Los Ranchos Pacific* Riverside	39 54 51 33	5,002 23,477 16,441 8,538	63 297 152 116	954 1,913 1,025 564	533 2,363 1,712 839	421 -450 -687 -275	9.29 -1.88 -3.99 -3.12
San Diego San Fernando San Gabriel Santa Barbara	33 33 43 30	19,635 10,265 11,263 9,868	321 200 142 264	1,720 831 785 896	1,546 1,057 900 807	174 -226 -115 89	0.89 -2.15 -1.01 0.91
Southwest	166	38,649	124	3,727	3,726	1	0.00
De Cristo Grand Canyon Santa Fe Sierra Blanca	29 71 43 23	9,268 18,726 7,666 2,989	141 139 96 95	797 1,847 791 292	866 1,588 808 464	-69 259 -17 -172	-0.74 1.40 -0.22 -5.44
Sun*	959	215,381	106	13,979	15,632	-1,653	-0.76
Arkansas Cimarron Eastern Oklahoma* Grace	99 15 81 185	18,457 3,724 13,918 51,725	105 159 44 144	1,258 199 824 3,040	1,089 195 1,322 3,519	169 4 -498 -479	0.92 0.11 -3.45 -0.92
Indian Nations Mission New Covenant Palo Duro	62 160 112 60	12,145 32,024 40,811 11,989	74 105 171 101	757 2,646 2,892 680	835 2,121 2,830 920	-78 525 62 -240	-0.64 1.67 0.15 -1.96
Pines South Louisana Tres Rios	76 73 36	8,011 13,253 9,324	52 94 109	392 841 450	879 1,254 668	-487 -413 -218	-5.73 -3.02 -2.28
Trinity	1,343	311,529	138	14,406	22,561	-8,155	-2.55
Beaver-Butler Carlisle Donegal Huntingdon	87 53 62 56	18,072 17,110 23,915 8,811	152 204 250 97	950 853 1,183 311	1,255 1,115 1,927 765	-305 -262 -744 -454	-1.66 -1.51 -3.02 -4.90
Kiskiminetas Lackawanna Lake Erie Lehigh	91 64 61 36	15,019 10,410 13,796 12,789	103 110 132 224	577 309 655 713	906 609 838 811	-329 -300 -183 -98	-2.14 -2.80 -1.31 -0.76
Northumberland Philadelphia Pittsburgh Redstone	44 151 167 89	6,833 47,332 54,315 20,375	105 180 210 145	333 2,457 2,776 748	484 4,221 4,491 1,130	-151 -1,764 -1,715 -382	-2.16 -3.59 -3.06 -1.84
Shenango Upper Ohio Valley Washington West Virginia	70 93 68 151	17,904 12,172 13,774 18,902	197 89 137 57	723 417 650 751	984 913 905 1,207	-261 -496 -255 -456	-1.44 -3.92 -1.82 -2.36
Total*	11,328	2,631,466	126	163,528	197,278	-33,750*	-1.27

^* = Due to data collection discrepancies related to the transfer of members from Hanmi Presbytery to Pacific Presbytery in 1995, too many members were reflected in the 1995 membership. Thus, using 1995 membership figures and the net gain or loss shown here will not provide the correct 1996 membership figure.

- = no data reported

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