Every year, over two Sundays in November/December, we survey who is in the Trinity Church congregation. This reveals who we really are in all our diversity.
The last survey at the end of 2011 shows, for example, that a third of the church is under 18, and we come from more than 42 different countries, over 20% from Africa and almost 20% from Asia. Though only 20% of the adults are born in the Netherlands just over half of us can speak Dutch. 15% of the adult congregation are students, just over half of us are in small groups and three quarters of us serve in our church in some way.
Each year we include a comparison of the results from previous years (when questions have been included over several years). This tells us, for example, that our congregation has grown by 23% since the end of 2010 and that the percentage of adults employed in the technical sphere has gone down by a third in the last year.
For the full comparative survey results you can read the PDF file here.