1
The object of catechetical instruction is to fit us for communicant membership in the Church.
2
The term "Kommuniziert" therefore does not convey definite information on the subject of communicant membership.
3
It reports 155 pastors and 190 congregations with a communicant membership of 24,000.
4
In 1861 these included an enrollment of 16 churches with a communicant membership of 1,772.
5
The force to do this work is already enlisted in the communicant membership of our one hundred and fifty organized congregations.
6
At present it numbers about 400 pastors and 580 congregations with a communicant membership of 160,000, more than one-fifth of them being German.