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PUERTO RICAN UNION CONFERENCE (1994-Present)
Parent Field:  INTER-AMERICAN DIVISION (1922-Present)
Sub Fields: East Puerto Rico Conference (1994-2008)
North Puerto Rico Mission (2001-2008)
South Puerto Rico Mission (2001-2008)
West Puerto Rico Conference (1994-2008)
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Entry:  		 Puerto Rican Union Conference

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Field Name Churches Beginning
Membership		 Accessions
(Bapt&POF)		 Deaths Dropped
& Missing		 Ending
Membership		 Ord & Lic
Ministers
East Puerto Rico Conference 123 14,715 914 113 402 14,469 57
North Puerto Rico Mission 41 5,190 189 21 109 5,305 19
South Puerto Rico Mission 31 2,912 218 19 84 3,017 16
West Puerto Rico Conference 101 13,625 587 111 248 13,829 52
PUERTO RICAN UNION CONFERENCE 296 36,442 1,908 264 843 36,620 158
Field Name Accession Rate Death Rate Dropped/
Missing Rate		 Members/
Accession		 Members/
Church		 Churches/
Minister		 Members/
Minister
East Puerto Rico Conference 6.21% 0.77% 2.73% 16.10 117.63 2.16 253.84
North Puerto Rico Mission 3.64% 0.40% 2.10% 27.46 129.39 2.16 279.21
South Puerto Rico Mission 7.49% 0.65% 2.88% 13.36 97.32 1.94 188.56
West Puerto Rico Conference 4.31% 0.81% 1.82% 23.21 136.92 1.94 265.94
PUERTO RICAN UNION CONFERENCE 5.24% 0.72% 2.31% 19.10 123.72 1.87 231.77

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Field   1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008  
Churches  260  260  260  266  270  274  275  284  289  290  296
Companies  28  29  29  30  30  30  32  29  26  24  26
Beginning
Membership		  30,087  31,524  32,128  32,705  31,598  33,018  34,414  35,050  35,926  35,530  36,442
Baptisms  2,420  1,594  762  1,244  1,731  2,423  1,800  2,025  1,526  1,533  1,768
Professions
of Faith		  213  112  43  96  155  414  176  147  92  103  140
Transfers In  459  461  207  6,381  1,046  473  508  891  571  744  609
Transfers Out  578  498  204  6,567  1,188  667  526  935  494  630  580
Deaths  318  276  99  192  188  254  337  328  316  314  264
Dropped  627  617  103  535  491  590  668  650  956  721  621
Missing  132  172  29  145  48  245  153  163  596  336  222
Total Gains  3,092  2,167  1,012  7,721  2,932  3,310  2,484  3,063  2,189  2,380  2,517
Total Losses  1,655  1,563  435  7,439  1,915  1,756  1,684  2,076  2,362  2,001  1,687
Adjustment    0  0  -1,389  403  -158  -164  -111  -223  533  -652
Net Growth  1,437  604  577  -1,107  1,420  1,396  636  876  -396  912  178
Ending
Membership		  31,524  32,128  32,705  31,598  33,018  34,414  35,050  35,926  35,530  36,442  36,620
Growth Rate  4.78%  1.92%  1.80%  -3.38%  4.49%  4.23%  1.85%  2.50%  -1.10%  2.57%  0.49%
Accession Rate  8.75%  5.41%  2.51%  4.10%  5.97%  8.59%  5.74%  6.20%  4.50%  4.60%  5.24%
Death Rate  1.06%  0.88%  0.31%  0.59%  0.59%  0.77%  0.98%  0.94%  0.88%  0.88%  0.72%
Ordained
Ministers		  106  97  97  98  104  112  116  118  113  114  121
Licensed
Ministers		  43  43  43  33  52  53  50  43  46  40  37

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