Most Recent UPCI Stats

[DAII]

As of today ...

9108 ministers.
3988 total churches
258 daughter works

[Hoovie]

Anything significant about those numbers DA? What are your thoughts?

[Dedicated Mind]

Is that world wide or national?

[Margies3]

How do these numbers compare to..... let's say....... 10 years ago? or 20 years ago? Or really pushing the envelope - 50 years ago?

I'm curious

[canam]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

Is that world wide or national?

US, there is something like 30,000 worldwide

[Jack Shephard]

Originally Posted by Margies3

How do these numbers compare to..... let's say....... 10 years ago? or 20 years ago? Or really pushing the envelope - 50 years ago?

I'm curious

They didn't keep numbers 50 years ago....they just made them up...LOL

[DAII]

Their about page which has not been updated in about a couple of years reads:

The United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI) has been among the fastest growing church organizations in North America since it was formed in 1945 by the merger of the Pentecostal Church, Incorporated, and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ. From 617 churches listed in 1946, the UPCI in North America (United States and Canada) today lists 4,358 churches (which includes 4099 autonomous and 258 daughter works), 9,085 ministers, and reports a Sunday School attendance of 646,304. Moreover, it is also located in 175 other nations with 22,881 licensed ministers, 28,351 churches and meeting places, 652 missionaries, and a foreign constituency of over 3 million, making a total worldwide constituency of more than 4,036,945.

[DAII]

Originally Posted by canam

US, there is something like 30,000 worldwide

This is a very gracious number as their about page lists about 28,000 churches and "meeting places".

[DAII]

In less than 3 years the org ... according to these latest inside stats from a reliable inside source reveals a loss of at least 350 -400 churches.

A former employee states that before the television resolution there were close to 9500 ministers ... this number is now about 9100.

Where did at least 400+ ministers go???? ...

Considering the admitted rate of attrition by Bernard of ministers leaving who think the org is either too strict or not strict enough ... and the reports of hundred of new licensees joining the ranks... this appears to be a serious hemorrhage

[DAII]

SpiritualAbuse publishes the following numbers from over 12 years ago.

In 1945 the UPC had 521 churches and as of 1999 they had 3892. From 1998 to 1999 they added 31 churches, which was an .8% growth. (This is the net amount after subtracting the churches which closed or left the organization from the new ones which started.) This is certainly not an indicative of the 'enormous' growth some members claim.