The group has added nearly 3,300 accountants to its membership rolls in the last 10 years and plans to add an additional 1,500 this year.
The church had 70 members at this stage; when the membership roll was inaugurated in 1938 there were 52.
You see, in the confusion there really wasn't enough time or organization to check everybody against the membership rolls.
Indeed, since the programs began in 1981, the membership rolls have grown by an average of 17 percent a year.
In 2010 the membership rolls recorded more than 78,000 physicians.
Making sure the membership roll was quite up to date.
The most immediate impact of the recognition by the Navy may be in the group's membership roll.
If we're doing this to pad our membership rolls, people will see through that.
The membership roll is just below 50, which happens to be the members' average age.
By the summer of 1971, the membership roll had dropped to about 75 elderly members.