Echo Meadows Analytical Report
As of 2026-10-18. 2012 Sundays on record, 1970-12-27 to 2026-10-18.
Sunday morning 2012 wk (1970–2026) · Sunday evening 1610 wk (1970–2026) · Wednesday 1405 wk (1970–2026) · Giving 1786 wk (1970–2026)
Sunday morning attendance is about the same as a year ago.
How much of the congregation comes to more than Sunday morning is about where it was a year ago.
Giving is $6,674 behind budget after 42 weeks of the year.
Worth watching: Nursery and PreK together are down 43% on a year ago. The youngest classes are where the next decade shows up first.
Attendance
Thin line: each Sunday. Thick line: 52-week average. Breaks in either are weeks with no record, left as breaks.
| Now, 52-week average | 177 | from 50 wk |
|---|---|---|
| 1 year ago | 180 | about the same |
| 3 years ago | 179 | about the same |
| 5 years ago | 181 | 2% down since |
Commitment
| Bible class against morning worship | 58% | level |
|---|---|---|
| Sunday evening against Sunday morning | 47% | 13% up |
| Wednesday against Sunday morning | 37% | level |
Share of Sunday morning, now against a year ago.
Children
| PreK | 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| K-1 | 6 | |
| 2-3 | 4 | |
| 4-5 | 7 | |
| 6th | 4 | |
| Teens | 24 |
Nursery and PreK together: 3, 43% down on a year ago.
K-1 in 2024 → 2-3 two years on: 89% (44–133%), from 5 recorded Sundays — too few to lean on.
2-3 in 2024 → 4-5 two years on: 108% (52–164%), from 5 recorded Sundays — too few to lean on.
Giving
Year to date, after 42 weeks: $258,532 against a budget of $265,206 — $6,674 behind.
Over the same weeks of the year, 2026 is running $6,156 a week against 2025's $5,843 — 5% ahead of it.
Like for like: every year cut at the same day, so the comparison is not ten months of this year against twelve of last. December gives about twice what January does, so a part-year read against whole years shows a fall that is really the absence of Christmas.
Giving per person in the pew: $37.90 a week, about the same as a year ago. Giving per attender is in 2026 dollars at prices to 2026-08, so figures from different years are comparable.
Setting the 2027 budget
On 2022-2025, a 2027 budget of $5,311 a week has about a 75% chance of being met. That is $1,003 below the budget in effect now.
| Weekly | For the year | Chance of being met |
|---|---|---|
| $5,528 | $287,470 | about 50% |
| $5,311 | $276,182 | about 75% |
| $4,977 | $258,819 | about 90% |
A budget is a commitment, so the choice is not symmetric: set at the middle figure it is roughly a coin flip whether the year ends short. Figures are what giving can be relied on to reach, not what should be spent.
What recent years actually gave
| Year | Given a week | Budget set | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $6,156 | $6,314 | missed by $159 |
| 2025 | $6,172 | $6,434 | missed by $263 |
| 2024 | $6,268 | $5,959 | met |
| 2023 | $6,818 | $5,374 | met |
| 2022 | $4,947 | $4,909 | met |
Weekly averages over the recorded Sundays of each year, against the budget in effect at its end.
Notes
- 2 Sundays in the last year have no attendance record. They are left out of every figure above rather than filled in.
- Events in the last year: Camp Dinner/Auction, Community Day, Corn Maze after morning service, Easter Egg Hunt, Move Up Sunday, Potluck Meal, Potluck for the end of the summer, Potluck/Cookout Meal, Special Contribution, Spring Rally Day, Trunk or Treat, VBS, Widows/Senior Ladies Luncheon. 71 other announcements were not recognised as events and are not listed.
- 2026 is not in these figures -- a part-year mean cannot be compared with whole ones -- but over the same weeks it is running 5% ahead of 2025, so the figures above may be conservative.
- 33 years between 1970-2021 left out for having under 40 recorded weeks. A mean over a handful of weeks can be a season rather than a year.
- Figures cover weeks up to 2026-10-18 using everything the archive now holds about them. That is not what was known on that date — most of the older record was scanned in 2026.
- No part of this page is written by a language model. Every sentence is built from the figures above by fixed rules.
Why the figures moved
The first two pages are what the numbers are. These are the five analyses that bear on why, and on what the archive can and cannot settle.
Where the giving year actually sits
Against an average week of $6,072: December runs 185% of it and September 79%.
| January | $4,832 | 80% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| February | $5,464 | 90% | |
| March | $5,850 | 96% | |
| April | $6,265 | 103% | |
| May | $7,715 | 127% | |
| June | $5,188 | 85% | |
| July | $5,017 | 83% | |
| August | $5,805 | 96% | |
| September | $4,793 | 79% | |
| October | $5,370 | 88% | |
| November | $6,934 | 114% | |
| December | $11,227 | 185% |
Mean giving per Sunday in each month over the last five years, as a share of the average week. A shortfall in September is the calendar, not the congregation — and a year-to-date figure read in October has not yet had its December.
Which moved: the budget, or the giving
Since 2022 the budget has been raised 29% and giving has moved 24%.
| Year | Given a week | Budget set | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $6,156 | $6,314 | −$159 |
| 2025 | $6,172 | $6,434 | −$263 |
| 2024 | $6,268 | $5,959 | +$309 |
| 2023 | $6,818 | $5,374 | +$1,444 |
| 2022 | $4,947 | $4,909 | +$39 |
Being behind budget has two causes and they need different answers. If the budget rose faster than giving, the budget is the thing that moved.
Fifty-three years, in comparable dollars
In 2026 dollars, weekly giving has gone from $13,505 in 1973 to $6,156 now. Per person in the pew it has gone from $32.29 to $34.55.
| Year | On Sunday | Given a week | In 2026 dollars | Per person |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 418 | $1,808 | $13,505 | $32.29 |
| 1976 | 472 | $2,314 | $13,491 | $28.57 |
| 1977 | 448 | $2,924 | $16,002 | $35.69 |
| 1981 | 380 | $3,225 | $11,767 | $30.97 |
| 1983 | 413 | $3,680 | $12,253 | $29.68 |
| 1996 | 322 | $4,147 | $8,766 | $27.21 |
| 2003 | 317 | $5,772 | $10,404 | $32.82 |
| 2004 | 326 | $6,063 | $10,644 | $32.67 |
| 2005 | 315 | $6,400 | $10,868 | $34.53 |
| 2006 | 309 | $6,381 | $10,497 | $33.93 |
| 2007 | 292 | $6,034 | $9,651 | $33.04 |
| 2008 | 297 | $5,703 | $8,785 | $29.62 |
| 2014 | 253 | $5,777 | $8,094 | $31.97 |
| 2015 | 237 | $5,813 | $8,135 | $34.32 |
| 2016 | 226 | $5,416 | $7,484 | $33.19 |
| 2022 | 165 | $4,947 | $5,607 | $34.07 |
| 2023 | 181 | $6,818 | $7,421 | $41.06 |
| 2024 | 177 | $6,268 | $6,627 | $37.49 |
| 2025 | 180 | $6,172 | $6,358 | $35.33 |
| 2026 | 178 | $6,156 | $6,156 | $34.55 |
CPI-U, prices to 2026-08. Only years with enough recorded Sundays on both sides of the division appear. The last two columns are the same arithmetic and a different conclusion: read the real total alone and generosity collapsed, read it per person and it did not move.
The other two services, in people
| Service | Now | vs 1 yr | vs 3 yr | vs 5 yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday morning | 177 | −1% | −1% | −2% |
| Sunday evening | 84 | +11% | +2% | — |
| Wednesday | 64 | −4% | −15% | −2% |
52-week averages. The first two pages carry these only as shares of Sunday morning, and a share holds steady while both of its halves fall.
Whether the events brought anyone who stayed
| Event | Times | Usual Sunday | On the day | Eight weeks on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VBS | 3 | 162 | +10 | +21 |
| Teensgiving | 2 | 181 | +9 | −11 |
| Move Up Sunday | 3 | 183 | +4 | −2 |
| Corn Maze | 2 | 184 | +3 | — |
| Clean Your Streams | 2 | 185 | −6 | −4 |
Sunday morning attendance against the trailing eight-week average before the event, and again eight weeks after it. The second column is the one that matters: a busy Sunday is easy, and a busy Sunday that is still there in two months is what the event was for.
- 67 dated announcement(s) fall on a weekday and are left out: this measures Sunday morning, so a Thursday luncheon has nothing to lift.