Michigan Conference Statistician
Pamela Stewart
517-347-4030 ext. 4137
[email protected]
Please contact me if you have questions or need assistance regarding your Local Church Report. My office hours are Monday through Friday, 8 am to 4 pm. Outside those hours, you may send me an email or leave a voicemail, and I will get back to you. Thank you!
Statistician's Page
Welcome, local churches! This page contains documents to aid you in submitting your end-of year Local Church Report to the Annual Conference, familiarly known as Tables 1, 2 and 3.
To log in:
You will use the Michigan Annual Conference Statistics website, https://stats.gcfa.org.
Your username is your 6-digit General Conference Number. Find your General Conference Number here.
Common church names may be prefixed with their city – for example, Detroit: Central UMC.
The universal password is Stats_2023
The Book of Discipline requires every church submit this report by the end of January each year. It also requires that the appointed or assigned pastor in church is ultimately responsible for the timely and accurate submission of the report - even if others do the work. (BOD ¶340.2c) (2) (f)
The window of time for submitting your 2023 report is
January 2, 2024 to February 2, 2024.
Online access will not be open until January 2, 2024.
More information from GCFA will be available on this page by mid-to-late November. An email from the statistician will also be sent with complete instructions around Thanksgiving time.
Overview – Read This First
Church Types for reporting
Calculating Attendance
How to Count Attendance
How to Count Virtual Worship Attendance
Virtual Attendance Counting Tips from the Missouri Conference
Forms
Blank Tables to use as a worksheet. Please disregard any prefilled figures. This is a test page that cannot be changed.
Clergy Compensation Worksheet
GCFA Statistical Forms in Spanish and Korean
Last Updated on November 9, 2023