Annual stats provide interesting look at LBC

By Karen L. Willoughby, Managing Editor

ALEXANDRIA – Much has happened over the last nine years in the family of the churches that affiliate with the Louisiana Baptist Convention. The start of 2010 is a good time to show where we are, and where we’ve come from since 2000.

The last nine years are significant in that four hurricanes battered the state and each one was devastating in its own way. Katrina, which buffeted the state in 2005, will stand out in infamy for the floodwaters – some that stood eight or more feet deep for more than three weeks – which followed breaches in New Orleans’ levees.

The statistics below come from the Annual Church Profiles churches send in each fall. Therefore, this is not a complete picture of Louisiana Southern Baptists. It reflects only the churches that chose to turn in their ACP reports. That said, the numbers are worth examining.