The Growth and Decline of Episcopal Churches and Missions,
adapted from the FACT 2005 Study by C. Kirk Hadaway
Updated 29 October 2007
Introduction
The Faith Communities Today (FACT) series was launched in 2000 with the largest national survery of congregations ever conducted in the United States. More than 14,300 local churches, synagoigues, parishes, temples and mosques were surveyed by the Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership (CCSP), hosted by Hartford Seminary's Institute for Religion Research.The results reported here came from 4,100 Episcopal congregations.
To enhance national respresentation, responses from the curvey were weighted by size and region. Other sources of information for the FACT 2005 Study about worrship attendance which came from yearly Parochial Reports, and community demographic data from the 2000 Census and ESRI's Community Sourcebook America 2005. The latest information we have from this study is for 2005. The next FACT survey will be conducted in 2008 and the results are planned to be available before the 2009 General Convention.
FACT's on Episcopal Church Growth was written by C. Kirk Hadaway, director of research for the Episcopal Church. He can be contacted at khadaway@episcopalchurch.org. The data and slide presenations for this course were all derived from http://www.episcopalchurch.org/research.htm.
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