{"id":96239,"date":"2020-10-21T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96239"},"modified":"2020-10-21T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T20:05:37","slug":"tlc-covenant-facing-episcopal-church-decline-the-latest-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96239","title":{"rendered":"(TLC Covenant) Facing Episcopal Church Decline \u2013 the Latest Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Average Sunday attendance<\/p>\n<p>Figures for average Sunday attendance (ASA) provide a more objective metric and a more striking message. During the 1990s average Sunday attendance was relatively stable but from around 2000 deep decline set in. This is ongoing. TEC\u2019s average Sunday attendance dropped by over 40 percent between 2000 and 2019. The decline of attendance was most rapid between 2005 and 2010. But recent years have seen a very substantial drop \u2013 a fall of 61,000, over 10 percent, in the last four years<\/p>\n<p>Episcopal Church Average Sunday Attendance 2000-19<\/p>\n<p>2000                 856,579<br \/>\n2005                 787,271<br \/>\n2010                 657,831<br \/>\n2015                 579,780<br \/>\n2019                 518,411<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/livingchurch.org\/covenant\/2020\/10\/19\/facing-episcopal-church-decline-the-latest-numbers\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The latest figures on membership, attendance, and baptisms for the Episcopal Church are stark and bracing. The Rev. Dr. David Goodhew analyzes the trends and dares to offer some hope for the future.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kTSsCakWpC\">https:\/\/t.co\/kTSsCakWpC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Living Church (@Livng_Church) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Livng_Church\/status\/1318302479218606081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average Sunday attendance Figures for average Sunday attendance (ASA) provide a more objective metric and a more striking message. During the 1990s average Sunday attendance was relatively stable but from around 2000 deep decline set in. This is ongoing. TEC\u2019s<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=96239\">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":[375,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tec-data","category-tec-parishes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96239","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=96239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96244,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96239\/revisions\/96244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}