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- The 2020 Faith Communities Today (FACT) study of more than 15,000 U.S. religious congregations revealed that 7 in 10 U.S. churches have 100 or fewer weekly worship service attendees, while 7 in 10 U.S. churchgoers attend a church with more than 250 each week.
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Now 2 in 3 churches are at less than 100 in attendance, with nearly 1 in 3 churches below 50. Engagement Is the New Church Attendance In response, some church leaders are shifting away from using attendance as the primary metric for growth and looking to engagement instead .
Jan 3, 2024 · There are about 105,000 “medium-small” churches with 100 to 499 worshipers per week. They represent 35% of churches nationwide and account for 25 million worshipers in total. Next is “medium-sized churches” with 500 to 999 worshipers. They represent 4% of churches with 8 million attendees nationwide.
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Oct 20, 2021 · The 2020 Faith Communities Today (FACT) study of more than 15,000 U.S. religious congregations revealed that 7 in 10 U.S. churches have 100 or fewer weekly worship service attendees, while 7 in 10 U.S. churchgoers attend a church with more than 250 each week.
Oct 28, 2023 · Overall, churches with less than 200 people have a ratio of one staff person for every 34 people in attendance. Churches with over 500 in attendance have a ratio of one staff person for every 46 people in 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 ...
The new report says that about 150 Canadian churches have more than 1,000 in attendance, and nearly 80 percent of them reported an increase in attendance over the last five years. Their growth comes from within the congregation (31 percent of respondents grew up in the congregation), from transfers (23 percent joined from other local ...
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Nov 13, 2024 · According to Faith and Leadership, churches with only in-person offerings experienced a decline of 15.7% in attendance. While those with hybrid offerings grew by 4.5%. With the rise of working from home thanks to technology, people expect flexibility in other areas of their lives, too.
