Statistics for March and April -- because everybody likes statistics, right?

The second two months: a summary

We've reported on 12 worship services in the past two months and 26 so far this year. In general, here's how the numbers break down for the past two months. Have we forgotten anything?*

Number of songs (by congregation, choir, worship band, or soloist)

Most: 10 at 16th Street Baptist, Birmingham, Alabama 

Fewest:  2 at Shallowford Presbyterian, Atlanta, Georgia 

Average: 6

Service length

Longest: 1 hour 48 minutes at 16th Street Baptist, Birmingham , Alabama

Shortest: 42 minutes at Clairmont Presbyterian, Atlanta, Georgia

Average: 1 hour 13 minutes

Sermon length

Longest: 55 minutes, First Baptist of Indian Rocks, Largo, Florida

Shortest: 7 minutes, Saint John's United Methodist Church, Fort Mill, South Carolina

Average: 38 minutes

Our rough attendance count

Highest: 628, First Baptist Church of Indian Rocks, Largo, Florida (HD -- contemporary -- service)

Lowest: 40, First Baptist Church of Indian Rocks (traditional service)

Average: 183

Median: 87

5 worship services had more than 150 attendees, and 7 had fewer than 150 attendees. Only 3 worship services had fewer than 50 in attendance

Snacks

Coffee and decaffeinated coffee: 6 churches (most also had decaf)

Pastries: 2 churches

Hot water for tea or hot chocolate:  3 churches

Cold water: 4 churches

Donut holes: 3 churches

Lemonade or juice: 4 churches

Other (French toast, sausage and biscuits, pigs in a blanket, mini croissants, scones, fruit): 2 churches

Distance from previous church

Longest: 595 miles (from Clairmont Presbyterian, to Saint John's United Methodist)

Shortest: 4 miles (from Clairmont Presbyterian, to Shallowford Presbyterian)

Average: 247 miles

Note: this isn't the actual distance we traveled between churches, since we generally made a lot of other stops along the way. Instead, it's the distance if we'd driven directly from one church to the next.

*I'm right about everybody liking statistics, right? Because I've got links for more! January and February. and 2016 statistics so far. Around the beginning of July, we'll have even more.