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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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