The Office of the General Assembly has released the 2008 statistics of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The statistical material released includes a comparative summary of the membership, a 2005–2008 summary of receipts and expenditures, and additional miscellaneous information.

The newest statistics report the total membership of the PC(USA) at 2,140,165 members.

Presbyterians have a renewed commitment to "Grow Christ’s Church Deep and Wide." The 218th General Assembly (2008) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) approved this initiative to grow the church in evangelism, discipleship, servanthood, and diversity.

In the Racial Ethnic and Women's Ministries/Presbyterian Women ministry area of the General Assembly Council, we are focusing on growing the church in diversity by welcoming others, learning from different races and cultures, and reflecting the cultural and ethnic diversity of God’s peoples in the world.

The newest statistics report the total membership of the PC(USA) at 2,140,165 members.

So Simon Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred fifty-three of them; and though there were so many, the net was not torn (John 21:11).

I have often wondered why this text mentioned a specific number of fish on the Galilean seashore. Who cares if there were 50 or 153 fish in the net? All that the writer needed to communicate was that there were so many fish that the nets did not break. In this context, the specificity of the number of fish seems to be an extra “over-detailed” piece of information.