Sunday morning is the primary time for worship in Southern Baptist congregations—98.5 percent conduct services on Sunday morning.  About 1 in 12 (8.1%) conducts two or more worship services on Sunday morning.  A small group of large congregations even conduct three or more worship services (1.4%).  Most congregations only have one worship service with the typical congregation (the median) having 80 in attendance.

The secondary time for Southern Baptists to hold worship services is Sunday evening.  More than three-fourths of all congregations (78.7%) conduct Sunday evening services.  For those reporting a Sunday night worship service, the typical church reports 40 in attendance.

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Nearly all U.S. respondents said faith is important to them and only 2 percent said they do not believe in God according to AP-Ipsos survey.  The “Religious Congregations and Membership” study, published in 2000 by the Glenmary Research Center study reports that 140 million Americans are associated with one of the 149 religious bodies participating in the study which is 50.2% of all Americans.

• United Methodist Church (35,721 churches) was down 6.7 percent
• American Baptist Churches USA were down 5.7 percent.
• The denominations showing growth included the deeply conservative Southern Baptist Convention, a collection of 41,514 churches, whose overall growth rate was 5 percent.
• Americans — over 70 percent — believe in an “all powerful, all knowing” God who rules the universe.
  

• "45% of American adults attend church in a typical weekend, not including a special event such as a wedding or a funeral. "
• Percentage of adults nationwide who have attended a church service in the past seven days not including a special event such as a wedding or a funeral.
                               
  2004-43%     2002-43%     2001-42%
  2000-40%     1997-43%     1996-37%
  1992-47%     1991-49%

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  • % of adults nationwide who have attended a church service in the past seven days.
  • Attendance by political party 
  • Men and Women 
  • Attendance by Ethnic Group
  • Weekend Attendance