The 2010 edition of the annual yearbook of American and Canadian churches produced by the National Council of Churches includes the following church growth statistics.
Roman Catholics, the largest denomination in the United States, grew 1.49 percent to 68 million members. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints grew 1.71 percent to 5.8 million members, while the Assemblies of God grew 1.27 percent to 2.8 million members.
The Southern Baptists, though, registered their second straight year of losses as being down .24 percent to 16.2 million. Even so, they are still the nation's largest Protestant denomination. They are doing well compared to certain others, such as the Presbyterian Church USA, which is down 3.28 percent to 2.9 million members; the American Baptists are down 2 percent to 1.3 million and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is down 1.92 percent to 4.7 million.
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