The Southern Baptist Convention saw its steepest single-year decline in membership in 2022, continuing a 16-year downward trajectory, due in part to up-to-date member rolls.

Southern Baptist Convention membership continued to shrink in 2023, but at a slower rate than in recent years, Lifeway Research found this month. It was the 17th straight year of declining ...

The Southern Baptist Convention reported today that membership fell for the 17th consecutive year, falling below 13 million for the first time since the 1970s. At its height in 2006, the SBC had ...

The Southern Baptist Convention’s total membership declined to less than 13 million in 2024, though it remains the largest Protestant denomination in America. Associated Press file photo ...

The Southern Baptist Convention’s annual census reported 241,000 fewer members and 292 fewer churches in 2023, another yearly drop for the nation's largest Protestant denomination. Lifeway ...

Annual baptisms in South­ern Baptist churches have declined by 100,000 in the past 12 years and last year dropped to the lowest number in 64 years. LifeWay Christian Resources of the Southern Baptist ...

It is also the 13th year in a row the Nashville-based Southern Baptist Convention has lost members. Membership now sits at 14,525,579 after the nearly 2% decrease.

Congregations belonging to the Southern Baptist Convention reported membership of 12,722,266 in 2024, a drop of 259,824 — or 2% — over the preceding year.

New Southern Baptist churches are being established in Westbrook, Orono and Richmond. Faith leaders see the lack of a historical foothold in the region as an opportunity for growth.

From 2019 to 2020, the number of Southern Baptists dropped 3% to 14,089,947. Membership isn't the only statistic that decreased during the pandemic.

c. 2012 Religion News Service (RNS) For the fifth year in a row, the Southern Baptist Convention has seen a drop in its total membership. The denomination's membership in 2011 was 15,978,112, a drop ...