{"id":46352,"date":"2017-12-08T22:25:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T04:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/?p=46352\/"},"modified":"2017-12-08T22:37:52","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T04:37:52","slug":"general-secretary-releases-2017-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/general-secretary-releases-2017-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"General Secretary Releases 2017 Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">General Secretary David P. Wilson and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nazarene.org\/research-services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nazarene Research Services<\/a> released the annual Church of the Nazarene statistical reports for 2017. These detailed reports documenting the missional activities of the denomination on a global scale show growth for the Church of the Nazarene over the statistical year, as well as continued growth over the past decade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have seen some significant increases in several areas and we&#8217;re grateful for the leadership of the Spirit and the hard work of God&#8217;s people around the world,&#8221; Wilson said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Global reports show total current membership for the Church of the Nazarene at 2,550,374, a net increase of 78,821 (3.19\u00a0percent) from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nazarene.org\/article\/general-secretary-releases-2016-stats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The denomination welcomed in 146,577 new Nazarenes this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fastest growing regions in membership were\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.samnaz.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South America<\/a>\u00a0(12.88 percent) and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mesoamericaregion.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mesoamerica<\/a> (5.57 percent).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are currently 30,875 churches in the denomination, an increase of 301 from last year&#8217;s report.\u00a0Of the churches listed, 22,928 are considered officially organized, a gain of\u00a0535 in that category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Church of the Nazarene has 17,911 ordained elders, 858 ordained deacons, and 9,950 licensed ministers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Information is based on reports received from districts for assemblies held 1 October\u00a02016\u00a0through 30 September 2017.\u00a0For the full statistical report,\u00a0click here.<\/p>\n<div class='w3eden'><!-- WPDM Link Template: Call to Action 3 -->\n\n<div class=\"well c2a3\">\n    <div class=\"media\">\n        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These detailed reports documenting the missional activities of the denomination on a global scale show growth for the Church of the Nazarene over the statistical year, as well as continued growth over the past decade. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/general-secretary-releases-2017-stats\/\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":46353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mesonaz.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}