• The 20 million Southern Baptists tallied in the "Religious Congregations and Membership: 2000" study are 4 million more than the convention's membership records indicate. 
• Southern Baptists, up 5 percent during the 1990s, are among the denominations experiencing growth

Research from the Vanier Institute of the Family shows weekly attendance at a religious service, which was down to 20 percent a few years ago, is up to 25 percent, monthly attendance is as high as 37 percent.  Weekly teenage attendance dropped from 23% to 18% between 1984 and 1992, but had grown to 22% in 2000

Eighty percent of Canadians identify with one of the following religions:  the Roman Catholic Church, Mainline Protestants, Conservative Protestants, or Other World Faiths.

• There are 1,210 Protestant churches in the United States with weekly attendance over 2,000, nearly double the number that existed 5 years ago.
• The megachurches surveyed reported a 2005 average regular weekly attendance of 3,585 persons.
  • Only 16% have 5,000 or more in attendance each week.
  • The median seating capacity of the largest worship service was 1,400.
  • At least 50% of churches use multiple venues for worship as well as satellite locations to increase seating capacity.
• The four states with the greatest concentrations of megachurches are California (14%), Texas (13%), Florida (7%) and Georgia (6%).
• The groups with the largest numbers of megachurches in our survey sample included nondenominational (36%), Southern Baptist (20%), United Methodist (9%), and Assemblies of God (5%).