The latest (print edition) condev newsletter is now available. If you would like a copy, email me.
In the newsletter, I promised some additional factoids from Understanding Episcopal Congregations:Results From the 2000 Faith Communities Today Survey – published by the national condev office. Here they are.
Participants and Members
+ The percentages of congregations reporting that most, nearly all, or all of their adult participants:
are married: 45%
are college graduates: 41%
are female: 29%
are age 60 or older: 18%
live very near the church: 15%
live in households with more than $75,000 annual incomes: 13%
live in households with less than $20,000 annual incomes: 2%
+ Counting everyone involved in congregational life, including both members and non-members (however irregular their participation), yields a median estimate of 200 persons per congregation.
+ The median estimate of regular adult participants is 100, while the median number of regular participants under age 18 is 25.
+ Most (89%) Episcopal congregations are at least 70% white/European American. Another 2.5% of Episcopal congregations are predominantly African American or Black. In 7% of Episcopal churches no racial/ethnic group predominates. These churches can be considered multi-racial.
For the entire document, click here
Posted by mbarlowe at December 23, 2003 02:35 PM