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Jan 4, 2022 · It seems that 2021 has loosened up a bit. Unstuck Group’s data indicates an overall drop of 28%, which stings slightly less from the 36% drop in 2020. Church attendance, of course, varies by region. So, some pastors are reporting only 20% reductions. Others are still experiencing 30-60% hits for in-person attendance.
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- Church Attendance Has Fallen During The Pandemic
- Most Churches Are (and Are Not) Back to Normal
- Regular Churchgoers Are Still (Mostly) Regular
- Certain Groups Are More Likely to Have Quit Attending
This probably comes as no surprise to pastors and church leaders, but fewer people regularly attend church now than prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to analysis from the Institute of Family Studies(IFS). In 2019, 34% of Americans attended a religious service at least once or twice a month. That fell to 31% in 2020 and 28% in 2021. The decl...
By September 2021, 98% of churches had returned to in-person worship services, according to Lifeway Research. Yet the same study found that the average pastor saw 73% of their church members in person on Sunday mornings. In other words, more than 1 in 4 pre-COVID churchgoers are still missing. That is an improvement from early 2021 when churches we...
A recent study from Grey Matter found evangelicals who attended church at least monthly prior to the pandemic where less likely to make the choice to stop attending during the pandemiccompared to those who attended less frequently. Only 11% of at least monthly churchgoers made the decision to stop attending in-person services even if their church w...
Perhaps unsurprisingly due to increased health risks, adults who are 65 and older are much less likely to attend at least monthly now (32%) than before the pandemic (41%), according to the IFS analysis. The largest age demographic drop, however, happened among young adults. In 2019, 36% of 18- to 34-year-olds attended church at least once or twice ...
- 91% of churchgoers said they plan to return. At the beginning of 2021, more than 9 in 10 pre-COVID churchgoers said they planned to attend in-person services as much or more than they did prior to the pandemic when COVID-19 is no longer an active threat to people’s health, according to Lifeway Research.
- 1.5% of pastors leave the pulpit each year. Despite widespread speculation that many pastors were quitting, Lifeway Research found the rate of pastor attrition remained statistically unchanged from 2015.
- 63% of Americans identify as Christian. That marks a 15-point drop in the past 14 years according to Pew Research, as 78% called themselves Christian in 2007.
- 41% of Americans say the Son of God existed before Jesus was born. Most Americans (80%) agree Jesus Christ is the Son of God the Father, according to Lifeway Research, but half that believe the Son of God existed prior to Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem.
Jul 21, 2023 · Data for 2021 confirm attendance in the Anglican Church of Canada declined by about 10 per cent that year, after a similar drop in 2020, the church’s statistics officer says, while preliminary findings from 2022 suggest it continued in a steep decline into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, statistics officer Canon […]
churches of Christ, worship attendance trends have re-mained mostly stable despite a global pandemic. The chart shows the annual worship attendance for each church size category. The attendance figures listed for both 2020 and 2021 in-clude only in-person worship attendance. Our 2019 sur-vey asked churches to report a combined in-person and
Dec 13, 2022 · Data released in November by the U.S.-based Episcopal Church (TEC) show average Sunday attendance in 2021 down by 43 per cent from pre-pandemic levels. At November’s meeting of CoGS, Liza Anderson, representative to the council for TEC, said a recent report to the Episcopal Church’s executive council showed that half of those who had stopped coming to church during the pandemic would ...
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Nov 13, 2022 · The average church reported 63% of its pre-pandemic in-person attendance in September 2020. By August 2021, that number climbed to 73% and jumped another 12 points in 2022, according to the study. "While there are a handful of exceptions, we can definitively say that churches in the U.S. have reopened," Lifeway Research Executive Director Scott ...
