Numbers are prized possessions in UBF. Yet the total offering and attendance numbers have historically been kept hidden.
While general numbers were often talked about, and personal numbers were explicitly given to members personally, exact totals were typically known only by leaders. Finally we now have some public numbers.
Sunday worship attendance statistics
Here are the average Sunday attendance numbers as of December 2011.
Korea..................3,450 North America..........2,141 Asia.....................862 Central/South America....686 Europe...................598 Africa...................419 CIS......................390 Oceania...................60 Middle East...............51
Total..................8,657
(source)
Offering numbers
Here are the offering numbers reported to the ECFA by Chicago UBF. It is not known if this is just North America, or UBF worldwide. Typically, satellite UBF chapters keep their own offering and send back a tithe to the central chapter in the US. The accounting of satellite chapters worldwide is not known. Perhaps these numbers only include the tithe sent into Chicago UBF from the satellite chapters.
It is also not known how the currency rates were converted if this indeed includes worldwide offering. The biggest unknown is how the Korean offering is accounted for.
2008 offering............$2,469,390 2009 offering............$2,196,557 2010 offering............$2,073,532 2011 offering............$2,166,924
Overall decrease of about 12%
Part of the income was marked as “other revenue”. This may be the sales of daily bread booklets and other books.
2008 revenue............$254,030 2009 revenue............$216,684 2010 revenue............$184,454 2011 revenue............$154,465
Overall decrease of about %39
(source)
Net Asset Numbers
The net total numbers actually increased from 2008 to 2011.
2008 net assets..............$12,682,836 2009 net assets..............$12,826,268 2010 net assets..............$12,896,882 2011 net assets............. $13,093,750
Overall increase of 3%
(source)