Membership Trends
Like many other mainline Protestant denominations, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) has experienced a significant loss of membership since the middle of the 20th century. Membership peaked in 1958 at just under 2 million. In the early 1990s, membership dropped below 1 million. In 2006, the denomination reported 3,774 churches and 698,686 members. Members are concentrated in the lower Midwest and parts of the South. The states with the highest rates of membership are Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Kentucky, and Oklahoma. Texas has the largest number of members, with over 100,000.
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