ELCT
Press Release
Date: January 31, 2011
Press release No. 001/01/2011
ELCT releases new membership figures
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) now has 5,601,271 members having registered 298,544 new members, according to figures released yesterday by the Secretary General of the ELCT, Mr. Brighton Killewa.
The figures show an increase of 5.63 per cent from the 2009 figures which recorded 5.3 million members and were released last year.
The ELCT membership for the past four years is as follows: 2007: 4,632,480 members; 2008: 4,956,731 members; 2009: 5,302,727 members and 2010: 5,601,271 members.
Issued
by the:
Secretary General's
Office, ELCT.
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Elizabeth Lobulu
Communication Coordinator,
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania
Box 3033, ARUSHA, Tanzania.
Phone: +255-27-250-8856/7
FAX: +255-27-254-8858
E-mail: Elizabeth Lobulu <ELobulu@elct.or.tz>
For more information contact:
Elizabeth
Lobulu
Communication Desk Officer, ELCT
E-mail: ELobulu@elct.or.tz