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Notes
95See Irvin J. Cunningham and J. L. Hall, comps., “The
United Pentecostal Church North America: Growth Trends and
Other Insightful Statistics” (Hazelwood, MO: General Home
Missions Division, UPCI, 1996), 1. The figures most commonly
quoted—900 churches and 1,838 ministers—apparently
come from the first official report, in 1949.
96Financial Reports, United Pentecostal Church International,
Year Ending June 30, 1998 (Hazelwood, MO: United
Pentecostal Church International, 1998), vi, 71.
97Jerry Jones (general secretary-treasurer, UPCI), personal
interview, Hazelwood, MO, 16 February 1999.
98Gary Erickson (secretary, General Sunday School
Division, UPCI), telephone interview, 18 February 1999.
Reported Easter attendance for 1997 was 429,066. For 1998
there was not an actual decrease in attendance but only a
decrease in reporting. For 1997 and 1998 figures broken down
by district, see Christian Educator, Fall 1998, 12.
99The Assemblies of God Current Facts (Springfield, MO:
Gospel Publishing House, 1997).
100Add 60 percent to estimated Easter attendance of
500,000 and foreign constituency of 2,000,000. The number
reported by the Foreign Missions Division for foreign constituency
“represents our regular attendance in our churches.”
Financial Reports, UPCI (1986), 77.
101French, 100.
102There were 3,543 churches in 1988 and 3,861 in 1998.
Sources: Financial Reports, UPCI for number of churches and
Sunday School Division reports for attendance.
103Outside the U.S. and Canada, there were 9,803 churches
and 787,677 constituents in 1988, and 21,407 churches and
2,000,000 constituents in 1998. Source: Financial Reports,
UPCI (1988, 1998).
104Harry Scism, “Together Winning the Lost,” Pentecostal
Herald, June 1992, 6.
105T. F. Tenney, “Ethiopia,” Superintendent’s Communique,
369