Members, The CME Church (thecmechurch.org)

Members, published on the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church's own site thecmechurch.org, is the denomination's official statistical return of its own congregations, an institutional self-account rather than independent research. Its authority is that of the church naming its own membership, the most direct record available of its current standing. Its limit is that, like any denomination's own count, it reflects internal reporting practice and cannot be independently audited from outside. Cite it for the CME Church's own stated membership; a comparative claim across denominations needs a source that standardizes counting methods across bodies.