The Beachy Amish Mennonite Churches

The Beachy Amish Mennonites

Mennonites

Beachy Population Statistics

Eighty years in God’s service: June 26, 1927 — 2007

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About the sources:
The Mennonite Yearbook first began reporting data on the Beachy church in 1957. The yearbook continued to include data on Beachys (as well as other conservative Mennonite groups) in a separate section in subsequent years. In 1998, Beachys and other conservative groups were excluded from the directory. Christian Light Publications, a conservative Mennonite press in Harrisonburg, VA, published a directory of conservative groups including Beachys. In 2006, the CLP Directory began listing the ‘Maranatha Amish Mennonite’ churches separately, and in 2008 began listing ‘Berea Amish Mennonite’ churches and ‘Unaffiliated Amish Mennonite’ churches separately. These churches are considered part of the Beachy Amish Mennonites and are included in the totals. Annual aggregated sums of weddings and births are as reported by the Calvary Messenger, and are not representative of the total weddings and births among Beachys, but are presumably proportional to the total. The Calvary Messenger began printing in 1970, and a full year of data was not available until 1971.

Year	Members	Churches	Members	Source	Reported	Reported
			per Church		Weddings	Births
1957	2677	28	96	M. Yearbook	-	-
1958	2755	28	98	M. Yearbook	-	-
1959	2446	24	102	M. Yearbook	-	-
1960	2592	27	96	M. Yearbook	-	-
1961	2878	29	99	M. Yearbook	-	-
1962	2913	31	94	M. Yearbook	-	-
1963	3047	33	92	M. Yearbook	-	-
1964	3116	35	89	M. Yearbook	-	-
1965	3105	39	80	M. Yearbook	-	-
1966	3488	41	85	M. Yearbook	-	-
1967	3689	47	78	M. Yearbook	-	-
1968	3839	50	77	M. Yearbook	-	-
1969	3875	49	79	M. Yearbook	-	-
1970	3977	55	72	M. Yearbook	-	-
1971	4098	61	67	M. Yearbook	32	132
1972	4069	62	66	M. Yearbook	29	133
1973	4112.5	67.5	61	Estimate	32	151
1974	4156	73	57	M. Yearbook	29	146
1975	4297	73	59	M. Yearbook	44	152
1976	4328	75	58	M. Yearbook	35	150
1977	4920	77	64	M. Yearbook	54	132
1978	5175	89	58	M. Yearbook	61	161
1979	5325	91	59	M. Yearbook	43	171
1980	5397	95	57	M. Yearbook	62	187
1981	5909	96	62	M. Yearbook	55	220
1982	6031	96	63	M. Yearbook	57	228
1983	6238	100	62	M. Yearbook	50	215
1984	6209	102	61	M. Yearbook	45	190
1985	6429	103	62	M. Yearbook	63	261
1986	6476	101	64	M. Yearbook	60	259
1987	6871	108.5	63	Estimate	61	244
1988	7266	116	63	M. Yearbook	56	279
1989	7508	119.5	63	Estimate	53	295
1990	7750	123	63	M. Yearbook	56	291
1991	7228	117.5	62	Estimate	49	315
1992	7200	112	64	M. Yearbook	45	290
1993	7459	112	67	M. Yearbook	63	281
1994	7678	121	63	M. Yearbook	65	342
1995	7974	130	61	M. Yearbook	41	296
1996	8167	140	58	M. Yearbook	55	348
1997	8399	138	61	M. Yearbook	53	307
1998	8512	141	60	CLP	62	293
1999	8821	148	60	CLP	80	291
2000	9148	153	60	CLP	63	230
2001	9219	153	60	CLP	69	332
2002	9607	158	61	CLP	52	274
2003	10038	159	63	CLP	63	270
2004	10085	166	61	CLP	53	297
2005	10229	167	61	CLP	80	300
2006	10316	172	60	CLP	70	272
2007	10647	180	59	CLP	96	286