Fun Facts For Church Geeks – 2010 (The United Church of Canada)

Here's some fun facts about the United Church of Canada that you can use to amaze and amuse your friends (Click here to download and Adobe PDF version of this post):

Of those who particiapte in a program or activity, the majority:

• Attend a congregation with worship attendance of 85 or more.
• Attend a Sunday School with a membership of 37 or more.
• Attend a CE program with a membership of 105 or more.
• Attend a women's group program with a membership of 26 or more.
• Attend a congregation with a resident membership of 204 or more.
• Attend a congregation with local givers of 118 or more.
• Attend a congregation with M&S givers of 60 or more.

Note: Only 136 congregations meet all of these criteria. 880 meet at least one.

The largest 10% of United Church congregations have:
(320 congregations with worship attendance of 133 or more)

• 27% of our total worship attendance.
• 28% of our total Sunday School membership.
• 33% of our total CE membership.
• 23% of our total women's groups membership.
• 27% of our total resident membership.
• 25% of our total local givers.
• 28% of our total M&S givers.

Of the 10 congregations with the largest worship attendance:

• 2 are in Vancouver-Burrard Presbytery (St. Andrew's-Wesley and West Vancouver)
  (And they are in Canada's least religious, most secular region.)
• 1 is in Victoria Presbytery (First-Metropolitan)
• Timothy Eaton Memorial in Toronto has the largest attendance, 540.

Of our total 3,196 congregations:

• Slightly less than 50% are in One-Point Pastoral Charges, and
• Slightly more than 50% are in Multi-point Pastoral Charges.
• Multiple-Point Pastoral Charges make up slightly more than 50% of all Congregations but only about 25% members, worship attendance, Sunday School members, etc.
• There are about the same number of members, worship attendance, Sunday School members, etc. in the 320 largest 10% of congregations as there are in the 1,661 congregations in Multiple-Point Pastoral Charges.

For Single-Point Pastoral Charges, sorted from largest to smallest for each of the categories below, here's what a congregation is like.

Single-Point PC's	Worship Attendance	Sunday School Membership	CE Program Membership	Women's Membership	Resident Membership	Number of Local Givers	Number of M&S Givers
First 10%	175 to 540	73 to 437	170 to 1,315	60 to 273	394 to 1,391	250 to 1,118	128 to 530
Second 10%	126 to 175	48 to 73	104 to 168	40 to 60	289 to 394	188 to 250	88 to 128
Third 10%	104 to 126	37 to 48	70 to 103	30 to 40	229 to 289	148 to 187	65 to 88
Fourth 10%	81 to 103	28 to 37	50 to 70	24 to 30	176 to 228	119 to 147	51 to 65
Fifth 10%	66 to 81	22 to 28	35 to 70	19 to 24	133 to 175	95 to 118	39 to 50
Sixth 10%	53 to 66	17 to 22	24 to 35	14 to 19	100 to 133	76 to 95	29 to 39
Seventh 10%	40 to 52	12 to 17	15 to 24	10 to 14	75 to 100	56 to 76	20 to 29
Eight 10%	29 to 40	7 to 12	8 to 15	6 to 10	51 to 75	41 to 56	13 to 20
Ninth 10%	18 to 29	0 to 7	0 to 8	0 to 6	29 to 51	24 to 40	6 to 13
Tenth 10%	0 to 18	0	0	0	0 to 29	0 to 24	0 to 6

 

You can see where your congregation fits by going down each column and circling the square that has your range.

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