Membership stands at 69,608 down 1,009 from the
previous year. Worship attendance stands at 33,241,
down 2,223.
Membership stands at 98,078, down 2,188 from the
previous year. Worship attendance stands at 44,974,
down 1,179.
Membership stands at 152,632, down 2,536 from the
previous year. Average worship attendance stands at
70,762, down 2,103 from the previous year.
Membership stands at 168,121, down .05 percent from
the previous year. Worship attendance stands at
73,835, down 2.4 percent from the previous year.
Membership stands at 333,664, up 5,399 from the
previous year. Worship attendance is reported at
134,307, down 66.
Membership stands at 35,247, down 915 from the
previous year. Average attendance was 18,060, down
219.
Two
conference officials presented a sobering picture of
declining membership and diminishing apportionment
payments over the past several years. Treasurer
Diane Knudsen encouraged pastors and congregations
to think of the conference in connection as “we”
rather than “they,” and to reach out into the
community to strengthen their churches. Statistician
Scott Allread documented a membership decline for
the sixth straight year and a drop in worship
attendance during four of the past five years. On a
positive note, he pointed out that 135 churches in
the conference saw increases in membership, while
129 recorded increases in worship attendance, and
urged churches in decline to study what works well
in their sister churches. Membership stands at
89,115, down 1,181 from the previous year. Worship
attendance stands at 42,358, down 1,686.
Membership stands at 93,128 down 1.7 percent from
the previous year. Average
weekly worship attendance stands at 55,101, down 2.2
percent.
Membership stands at
185,041, down 2,313 from the previous year. Worship
attendance stands at 70,869 down 4,629.
Membership stands
at 243,888, down 6,767 from the previous year.
Worship attendance stands at 126,407, up 2,887
Membership in the Greater New
Jersey Conference stands at 107,837, down 1,238 from
last year. Average worship attendance was 56,648,
down 1,370 from the previous year.
Conference membership stands
at: 60,499, down 1,068 from 2002.
Membership
(confessing members) of the newly formed annual
conference stands at 18,576, down 338 members. The
number of “baptized members” (Kirchenangehörige) in
the new conference remained relatively stable at
15,337.
Attendance stands at
76,692, down 2.5 percent; membership is at 155,264,
down 2.7 percent.
South Indiana Annual
Conference
Membership stands at
67,740, up 266 from the previous year. Worship
attendance stands at 23,868, down 629 from the
previous year.
Membership stands at 6,232, down 50 from the
previous year. Worship attendance stands at 2,266, down
68.
Rio Grande Annual Conference
Membership stands at 14,927,
down 212 from last year. Worship attendance stands at
5,338, down 52 from the previous year.
Conference membership in 2003 was 329,018, a
decline of 3,106 people. The average worship attendance
was 161,375.
Western North Carolina Annual Conference
Heard the statistical report which noted that while
conference membership is up, attendance at the principle
worship service is down;
Previously Reported in NIC
VOICE Annual Conference Reports Update #3:
Membership stands at 342,106, up 785
over the previous year. Worship attendance stands at
124,877, down 1,821. Two new congregations were
chartered.
Participation in short term and on-going
groups is at 63,629 up nearly 18,000. Membership
stands at 196,575 down 1,415. Worship attendance is
71,626 down 1,455
Northern Illinois Annual Conference
Membership stands at 114,151 as of the end of 2003,
down 1,812 from the previous year. Worship
attendance stands at 45,606, down 2,093 from 2002.
Membership stands at 102,062, down 2,193 from the
previous year. Worship attendance stands at 35,880,
down 1,566.
Membership stands at
54,446, down 631
from the previous year. Worship attendance stands at
17,647, down 627.
Membership stands at 107,215, down 1,266. Worship
attendance stands at 53,286, down 1,304.
Conference membership stands at 195,537, down 2,201
from the previous year. Worship attendance stands
at 69,470, down 445 from the previous year.
Arkansas
Annual Conference
Membership stands at 139,139,
down 924 from the previous year. Worship attendance
stands at 57,246, down 2,807.
Louisiana Annual Conference
Membership stands at 126,846, up 239 from the
previous year. Worship attendance stands at 48,387, down
778 from last year.
Desert Southwest Conference
Desert Southwest
membership stands at 44,778, down 326. Average weekly
worship attendance is 30,854, 8.9% of membership.
(Editor's note - these numbers do not appear to be
correct (% attending 8.9%)
Previously Reported
in NIC VOICE Annual Conference Reports Update #2:
Membership stands at 101,267, down 1,653, Worship
attendance stands at 68,694, down 2,783.
Membership stands at 86,072, down 2,512 from the
previous year. Worship attendance stands at 43,060,
down 749.
Membership stands at 68,422, down 1629.
Average worship attendance is 45,273, down 135.
Membership stands at 157,454, up 553 from
the previous year. Worship attendance stands at
47,500, down 845.
Kansas West Annual Conference
Membership stands at: 87,520,
down 762 from the previous year. Average attendance
stands at: 37,197, down 737 from the previous year.
New Mexico Annual Conference
Membership stands at 40,653, down 1,068 over
the previous year. Worship attendance stands at
17,776, down 227.
Membership stands at 190,472, up 483 from
the previous year. Worship attendance stands at
77,914, up 439.
Membership stands at 242,057, up 237 from
the previous year. Worship attendance stands at
100,123, down 1,029.
Membership in the Peninsula-Delaware
Conference stands at 94,262, down 623 over the
previous year. Average worship attendance stands at
36,006, up 570.
Membership stands at 60,525, down 3,895 from the
previous year. Worship attendance remains steady at
16,318.
Missouri Annual Conference
Membership stands at 176,251, down 1,861 from the
previous year. Worship attendance stands at 84,457,
down 1,232 from the previous year.
As of Jan. 1, Oklahoma Conference membership
stood at 248,364, a decrease of 2,265; worship
attendance for 2003 averaged 62,191, a decrease of
1,160; church school enrollment stood at 85,068, a
decrease of 556; and church school attendance for
the year averaged 33,860, a decrease of 1,009.
During 2003, the conference received 7,013 members.
Of that number, 2,679 were by profession of faith.
Dakotas Annual Conference
Current membership stands at 43,684, down
625 from the previous year. Worship attendance
stands at 23,116, down 244.
New York Annual Conference
Membership
stands at 129,696, up 802 from the previous
year. Worship attendance stands at 34,824, down
6,428.
North Texas Annual Conference
Membership stands at 159.014, down 2,276 from the
previous year. Worship attendance stands at 62,483,
down by 112. According to the statistician’s report,
North Texas Conference churches actually received
11,654 new members (8.2 percent) in 2003 over 2002,
and 4,039 came by profession of faith, more than any
other year of the past decade. Most obvious reason
for the decline in membership – after seven straight
years of growth – was that more than twice as many
names as usual were dropped from church rolls by
Charge Conference action (6,683 compared to 3,265 in
2002).
Southwest Texas Annual Conference
Membership stands at 120,428, down 487. Worship
attendance stands at 51,000, down 147.
Alabama-West Florida Annual Conference
Membership stands at 146,813, up 94 from the
previous year. Worship attendance stands at 67,624,
down 83 from the previous year.
Memphis Annual Conference
Although church school enrollment in the
Memphis Conference is up by 970 from the previous
year, membership stands at 89,920, down 1,178 from
the previous year. Worship attendance stands at
36,038, down 493.
North Alabama Annual Conference
Membership stands at 157,862, down 1,408 from the
previous year. Worship attendance stands at 74,066,
up 227.
North Carolina Annual Conference
Membership stands at 234,056, up 1,356 from the
previous year. Worship attendance stands at 89,950,
down 38.
South Georgia Annual Conference
Membership stands at 139,917, down 1,419 from the
previous year. Worship attendance stands at 53,537,
up 145.
Previously Reported in NIC
VOICE Annual Conference Reports Update #1:
Membership stands at
105,351, down 942 from the previous year.
Worship attendance stands at 51,459, down 623
Membership stands at
202,302, down 2,532. Worship attendance was down
3 percent.
Membership stands at
79,895, down 1,566 from the previous year.
Worship attendance stands at 25,027, down 613.
Membership stands at
1,367, up 3 over the previous year. Worship
attendance stands at 747, down 63.
Membership stands at
4,044, down 88 from the previous year. Worship
attendance stands at 2,594, down 28.
Membership stands at
7,774 confessing members, down 112, and 4,985
baptized members (up 144).
