The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is a Reformed Protestant Christian denomination that traces its roots to the colonial period.  It was originally organized in the United States in 1789, with the current form created in 1983 through reunion of northern and southern churches that had split over the Civil War. It has 11,200 congregations with a combined membership of approximately 2.5 million, around 1% of the U.S. population, making it the 8th largest religious group in the country.

The Presbyterian participation in the FACT project included a survey of 881 congregations, sampled randomly within categories of region, membership size, and race ethnicity to be representative of the entire denomination.  A total of 541 questionnaires were completed and returned, for a 61% response rate. View the version of the questionnaire used by the Presbyterian Church.

If you are interested in obtaining specific information about the results of the Presbyterian survey, please get in touch with their official contact person, John P. Marcum, at jackm@ctr.pcusa.org.  

A summary of the Presbyterian results are available on the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) web page:  http://www.pcusa.org/rs/FACT.htm 

Several persons were involved in collecting the Presbyterian Church information. John P. Marcum and Cynthia A. Woolever are the Co-Key Researchers, Gary Torrens is the person charged with encouraging denominational congregations to use this information, and Jerry Van Marter is the media contact person.

If you would like to know more about the Presbyterian Church, USA, visit the denomination's official web site at www.pcusa.org.