{"id":138116,"date":"2025-06-26T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138116"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T22:07:00","slug":"je-jeff-walton-acna-anglicans-see-multi-year-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138116","title":{"rendered":"(JE) Jeff Walton-ACNA Anglicans See Multi-Year Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Attendance in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/anglicanchurch.net\/\">Anglican Church in North America<\/a>&nbsp;(ACNA) is up by double digits for the third consecutive year, according to congregational report data released June 19 during the denomination\u2019s Provincial Council meeting at Trinity Anglican Seminary in Ambridge, Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve grown in every category that we track,\u201d said Dan Hassler, director of administration and operations. \u201cWe are at highest attendance and membership of all time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The denomination in 2024 reported a net increase of 14 congregations to a total of 1,027, an increase in membership of 1,997 (+1.5 percent) to a total of 130,111 and an increase in attendance of 11,354 (+13.4 percent) to a total of 96,148.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/juicyecumenism.com\/2025\/06\/23\/anglican-provincial-council\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe\u2019ve grown in every category that we track,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/The_ACNA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@The_ACNA<\/a> staff report at the denomination&#39;s annual provincial council, finding 2024 increases in membership, attendance, baptisms, confirmations and weddings. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ybtH8c84xP\">https:\/\/t.co\/ybtH8c84xP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; IRD (@TheIRD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheIRD\/status\/1937167597507616857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attendance in the&nbsp;Anglican Church in North America&nbsp;(ACNA) is up by double digits for the third consecutive year, according to congregational report data released June 19 during the denomination\u2019s Provincial Council meeting at Trinity Anglican Seminary in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. \u201cWe\u2019ve grown<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=138116\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,440,184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-in-north-america-acna","category-evangelism-and-church-growth","category-parish-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138116"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138119,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138116\/revisions\/138119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}