PCUSA loses another 46,544 members in 2006
By Craig M. Kibler Staff Writer
The Layman
Friday, June 8, 2007

The Presbyterian Church (USA) lost 46,544 more members in 2006, continuing an ongoing decline that has seen the loss of 225,308 members in just the past five years.

Membership in the denomination dropped from 2,313,662 in 2005 to 2,267,118 in 2006, according to annual statistics released by the Office of the General Assembly.

That membership total is a drop of almost half – 45.7 percent – of the 4,254,597 members it had in 1965, the year that the PCUSA and its predecessor denominations reached their highest total numbers of members. the rest