Members down 3 percent in PCUSA, adult baptisms up: The lowest yearly drop in the last decade
The net losses in membership in 2009 amounted to the lowest yearly drop in the last decade for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), though the 3 percent decrease to 2,077,138 members was part of a good news/bad news assessment from the denomination’s top executive. “The good news is that adult baptisms rose for the first time in at least four years,” said Gradye Parsons, stated clerk of the PCUSA.