Putting TEC’s membership and attendance decline in perspective

http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/7389/

[TitusOneNine] 6 Nov 2007--A friend recently asked us what TEC's decline in membership and ASA (average Sunday attendance) in recent years meant on a daily basis. We've had a few minutes to crunch some numbers. (The 2006 TEC domestic data is still rough as exact diocese by diocese figures have not yet been released. We're using 2006 figures for Provinces 1-8 with 2005 figures for Haiti, Dominican Republic, Taiwan, Micronesia and the Churches in Europe subtracted out). For 2000 and 2005 data we've used official TEC data found here.

2000 TEC Domestic Membership: 2,329,0452006
estimated Domestic Membership: 2,156,043

membership loss in 6 years: 173,002 (-7.4%, a loss of 1.2% per year)

This equates to an average loss of 28,834 members per year (or losing a diocese the size of the diocese of Ohio per year)

This also equates to losing an average of 79 members PER DAY.

(The average parish in TEC had 174 members in 2005. So this equates to losing an average parish every two - three days for 6 years.)

Graphs that illustrate the denomination's membership losses can be found at:
http://www.kendallharmon.net/t19/index.php/t19/article/7391/