Congregational Category Information

Congregational Category Information

2003 Table and Statistics

This is the data submitted in 2003 based on 1998 to 2002 statistics

On this page you will find all the information you need to access and work with the 2003 Category Survey results.

The Questions - the 10 questions used to determine Category

The Table

(in excel format) - lists all the churches that submitted reports (580) and the churches whose DS submitted for them a Category designation without the actual survey being done (72.) There were about 90 churches which did not submit a survey and are not in the table at all.

Note:

To sort or manipulate the data in this table you will first need to download it to you local hard drive. In order to open the table on your local machine you will need MicroSoft Excel.

Table Column Titles and explanation where needed.

Gcfa #     City    Church     Church Add     District ID (a number 1 to 14)     District

q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8 q9 q10

Cat_Total (sum of the numeric answers to q1 to q10)
Category (as determined by the cat total)
Cat_Num ( see chart below)

Cat_Select (category selected by congregation when they disagree with survey results)
Cat_by_DS (category designated by DS when congregation does not submit a report)

Avgworship Profession Restoration (from congregation’s 2002 Annual report)

Today ( the date the survey results were submitted)

Category	Scoring Range	Cat Num
Beginning	**	1
Transforming	40 to 50	2
Reproducing	**	3
Maintaining	21 to 39	4
Dying	10 to 20	5

** The Survey does not differentiate Beginning and Reproducing.
The Director of New Church Development decides which*churches
are in these categories.

Here are three ways of examining the Category Scores submitted by the churches of the Conference.

1. The Distribution – presentations of the names of churches and/or numbers of churches which scored at each level from 10 to 50 correlated with change in average worship attendance from 2002 to 2003.

Table 1 Number of Churches & Average Worship Attendance Change

(AWAC)

Table 1 lists each score level, the number of churches at that level and the average change in worship average attendance of those churches.

Click here for Category Table 1

Table 2 List of Churches & Their AWAC by District/Church

Table 2 lists names of churches at each score level (secondary sort by district then by church), their average worship attendance for 2002 and 2003 with the numeric and percentage change calculated and displayed.

Click here for Category Table 2

Table 3 List of Churches & Their AWAC

Table 3 lists names of churches at each score level (secondary sort by change in average worship attendance then by district), their average worship attendance for 2002 and 2003 with the numeric and percentage change calculated and displayed.

Click here for Category Table 3

2. Category Score Vs Worship Average Attendance
This chart shows the average category score as it varies with worship average attendance. The
range is less than 6 for all sizes of congregations.

Avg Wor Atten	3 To 25	26 To 50	51 To 100	101 To 200	201 To 400	401 To 750	751 To 1000	over 1000
Avg Cat Score	30.2	30.4	30.1	29.5	30.8	33.3	32.2	35.3
# of Churches	38	60	132	126	117	65	16	20	574

3. The Summary – Category Scores presented by district and category. Percentages of churches in the various categories are shown.

NCD/CT Directors' Refinement of the Category Table

	# Churches	Ent'd	Beginning	Transform	Repro	Maintaining	Maintaining	Dying	Ck	Ent'd but
	&					High	Low		T'tl	W/O
	Missions			(40-50)		(30-39)	(21-29)	(10-20)		Survey
BP	55	39	1	6	0	10	22	0	39	2
DL	45	45	1	5	1	23	13	2	45	0
FM	40	38	1	7	0	12	12	6	38	5
GN	83	81	0	1	0	42	35	3	81	2
JA	57	56	2	2	2	14	32	4	56	23
LA	53	52	3	3	0	19	24	3	52	3
LE	58	55	0	1	1	32	21	0	55	1
ME	43	39	1	1	0	22	13	2	39	0
MI	59	13	0	3	0	7	3	0	13	1
OR	48	43	2	5	0	19	15	2	43	0
SR	46	40	1	4	1	16	15	3	40	0
SP	46	45	1	2	1	17	21	3	45	2
TL	60	56	0	4	0	29	18	5	56	9
TM	50	50	0	10	0	19	15	6	50	24

--------- -------- --------- -------- --------- --------- --------- -------- -------- ---------

Totals 743 652 13 54 6 281 259 39 652 72

1.99% 8.28% 0.92% 43.10% 39.72% 5.98%

The number of Churches and Missions was drawn from the 2003 Appointment Book.

87.8% (652 of 743) of the churches were entered in the table.

There were 91 (743 – 652) who submitted no survey and were not entered in the Table.

Categories were assigned by their DS’s to 72 churches who submitted no survey.

The Director's Refinement total (652) includes the 72 (72 + 580) churches entered with no survey information.

The Director Of New Church Development determined that of the 56 churches he supervises 6 were
Reproducing and 30 were Beginning.

The Directors’ Refinement above was generated using the raw Survey data, DS submissions for some churches that submitted no Survey, the Congregation’s own perceptions of their category, and the Directors’ judgment.. Categories resulting from the Surveys were occasionally modified for the Table by the Directors

	Beginning	Transforming	Reproducing	Maintaining (High)	Maintaining (Low)	Dying	Total
Congregation's Selection	27	91	1	443	***	18	580
Raw Survey	0	50	0	291	218	21	580	Determination
	0.0%	8.62%	0.0%	50.17%	37.59%	3.62%

*** Congregations were not given the choice of High or Low Maintaining, only Maintaining.