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Active Congregations
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Baptized Members
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Avg Weekly Attendance
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Total Annual Giving
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Key Indicators
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Indexed Trajectory period start = 100
Normalized comparison of baptized, attendance, and giving across the selected window. Congregation count is not a time series in this snapshot.
Change Over Selected Period
% change from first to last year of the active window
Members per Congregation
Average baptized membership among congregations with 10-year history
District Share of Congregations
Top 50 Rankings — Individual Congregations
Top 50 LCMS Member Congregations by Average Weekly Attendance
Bars color-coded by district · Click any category tab to instantly re-rank
Top 50 Detail Table
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| # | Church | Location | District | Attendance | Baptized | Total Giving | $/Member |
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National Trends
Membership Trends
Baptized & Communing Members
Total Weekly Attendance
Synod-wide worshipers on a typical Sunday · 2020 reflects COVID-19 impact
Total Annual Giving
Contributions from congregation PDFs by history year · millions USD · not the same year as headline KPIs
Giving Breakdown
Contributions vs. at-home expenses
All 35 LCMS Districts
Congregations & Statistics by District
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Baptisms & Confirmations
Child baptisms & confirmations from scraped PDFs
Congregation Size Distribution
Number of churches by average weekly attendance bracket
Per-Member Giving
Annual total giving divided by baptized membership
Worship Attendance Rate
Avg weekly attendance as % of communing members
Top 20 States by Church Count
LCMS congregations per state
Membership Flow
Annual gains (baptisms & confirmations) from scraped PDFs
District League Table
All Districts — Key Statistics at a Glance
PDF district headlines · not the history-window sums used in trend charts · ranked by congregations
| # | District | Churches | Baptized Members | Communing Members | Avg Weekly Attendance | Annual Giving | Giving / Member |
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