Mr. Patterson said he would not be surprised if 1,500 or more moderate congregations were to leave the convention in the coming years out of the more than 40,000 total congregations that belong.
Well, ultimately the full congregation.
The National Congregations Study, which also was conducted in 1998 and 2006-2007 among a total of 2,740 congregations, gathered information from a nationally representative sample of 1,331 congregations for the 2012 study.
10. (C) Additional churches were registered in the Northwest Highlands bringing the total ECVN registered congregations in the region to 168.
Although the work of the missionaries continued to be tolerated in the provinces, it frequently met with strong hostility from the local authorities, and the total number of congregations declined greatly.
I had received, if not God's love, then the affection of a congregation of total strangers.
This innovation was successful; 47 new members joined in 1898, and the congregation's total membership reached 222 families.
A congregation's total territory will be divided up into these small territory cards.
The Southern Baptist Convention gained 489 churches last year, bringing the total of its member congregations to nearly 42,000.
Eventually, they raised enough money, including small contributions from congregation members totaling 50 cents a month, to form a new church with a house of worship on Bridge Street in downtown Brooklyn.
It required him to oversee a dozen Boston-area congregations totaling about 4,000 Mormons.
