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FIGURE 6<br />
PROTESTANT CHURCH MEMBERSHIP STATISTICS FOR<br />
BELIZE BY TRADITIONS AND FAMILIES OF DENOMINATIONS: 1978<br />
TRADITION & FAMILY TYPE<br />
NUMBER OF<br />
CONGRE-<br />
GATIONS<br />
REPORTED<br />
MEMBER-<br />
SHIP<br />
PERCENT<br />
OF TOTAL<br />
LITURGICAL TRADITION 31 4,195 25.5%<br />
The Anglican Church 26 4,000<br />
Presbyterian Churches (2 groups) 5 195<br />
EVANGELICAL NON-PENTECOSTAL (SEPARATIST) 118 5,562 33.8<br />
All Mennonite groups 37 1,909<br />
Methodist Church in the Caribbean & Americas 22 1,695<br />
Church of the Nazarene 18 632<br />
Belize Baptist Mission 6 333<br />
Association of Evangelical Churches of Belize (GMU) 12 326<br />
Christian Brethren Assemblies 5 323<br />
Church of Christ 1 191<br />
All others (Baptist, AME Zion, Friends/Quakers, Moravian,<br />
Salvation Army, etc)<br />
12 243<br />
ADVENTIST TRADITION 40 3,997 24.3<br />
Seventh-day Adventist Church 39 3,897<br />
Independent Adventist Church 1 100<br />
PENTECOSTAL TRADITION 64 2,656 16.2<br />
Kekchi and Mayan Churches of Belize 15 746<br />
Church of God in Christ (Memphis, TN) 7 540<br />
Church of God (Cleveland, TN) 8 101<br />
Pentecostal Church of God of America 2 97<br />
Assemblies of God (Springfield, MO) 6 96<br />
City Mission (International Pentecostal Church) 1 50<br />
Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith 1 19<br />
Others (14 groups) 24 1,007<br />
UNCLASSIFIED GROUPS 5 36 0.2<br />
TOTALS 258 16,801 100%<br />
NOTES:<br />
1. The total Protestant Membership of 16,801 in 1978 represented about 11.8% of the population,<br />
whereas the total Protestant Community in 1978 was estimated to be 43,562 (33.3%) of the total<br />
population of Belize, estimated at 131,000 in 1978 (see Figure 8A).<br />
2. The statistics for 1978 were taken from Part I of the Directory of Churches, Organizations and<br />
Ministries of the Protestant Movement in Belize. San José, Costa Rica: IINDEPTH /<br />
PROCADES, 1979.<br />
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