The 2018 Charts: Small Churches and Very Small Churches

August 22, 2019

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Our annual listing of churches is one of Christian Standard’s most popular features. This year scores of churches participated, including 78 small churches (average weekly worship attendance of 100 to 249 during 2018) and 47 very small churches (attendance of fewer than 100). In May we featured an article and statistics from 55 megachurches (2,000 or … Read more

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Our annual listing of churches is one of Christian Standard’s most popular features. This year scores of churches participated, including 78 small churches (average weekly worship attendance of 100 to 249 during 2018) and 47 very small churches (attendance of fewer than 100). In May we featured an article and statistics from 55 megachurches (2,000 or more in weekly attendance) and 70 emerging megachurches (1,000 to 1,999). In July we spotlighted 88 large churches (500 to 999 in weekly attendance) and 86 medium churches (250 to 499).

Click here to view and download 2018 Charts3, with data from small churches and very small churches . . . or click on them individually.

• 2018 Small Churches

• 2018 Very Small Churches

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Steven Lowman
7 years ago

2018 Church Survey in Map Form: http://rom120.com/blog1/2019/05/01/2018-church-survey/

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