African-American Presbyterian Congregations

In the PC(USA) there are approximately 484 predominantly African-American congregations and 80,000 African-American Presbyterians. Download the African-American Presbyterian Directory

The African-American Presbyterian Directory, consisting of predominately African-American congregations includes:

• Index by pastor
• African-American Clergy Women
• New Church Developments (NCD) Ministries
• African-American Seminary staff persons
• African-American General Assembly staff persons African-American executives in governing bodies.

Seeing In Depth

A statistical presentation of Black Presbyterian churches 1997 - 2006

Our minds contain a set of assumptions about the world and the objects that exist in it.  This set of assumptions is so deeply ingrained in the human brain that people impose them instantaneously, automatically and unconsciously on the visual data stream of the eyes.

Statistics are a way to see our world.  Our ability to interpret the following statistics is limited to our assumptions about what is important, how things are related and what our expectations of the church are.

Did you know?

• There are 72,227 Black Presbyterians.
• 52,133 Black Presbyterians are members of Black churches.
• 72 percent of Black Presbyterians are members of Black churches.
• 28 percent of Black Presbyterians are not members of Black churches.

For a picture of what Black Presbyterian congregations look like based on data provided to Research Services view this presentation by the Rev. Craig M. Howard.

[1] Data from the Presbyterian Panel, Comparative Statistics, and Congregational Statistics are available for use by presbyteries synods, and congregations.

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