Correction to editors: Sub graphs for year-end wrap-up
Dec. 6, 2007
Editors, please sub the following two graphs in "United Methodists looked outward, inward, in '07" (Dec. 4, 2007) to add a missing word and a missing statistic. UMNS regrets the errors.
This graph is the third under the subhead, "U.S. membership down, giving up":
Statistics for 2005, the latest available, show worldwide professing and baptized membership at 13.75 million in more than 50 countries, compared with 11.35 million in 1995. U.S. professing membership is 7,995,429, compared with 8,075,010 the previous year, a decline of nearly 1 percent. Membership has decreased by more than 1.9 million members, or 19 percent, since 1974.
This paragraph is the first graph under the subhead, "Reflecting church's diversity":
Three March gatherings reflected on the diversity found within The United Methodist Church. In the first meeting of its kind, leaders of the Korean-American United Methodist community gathered in Englewood, N.J., to share celebrations and challenges and develop a vision to embolden their ministry in the United States. There are about 60,000 Korean-American United Methodists, with 310 churches in 40 states.
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