[ed. - An October 1995 roster of Fellowship of Friends members lists 1,756 active members and 5,212 inactive (former) members. The roster, however, is not a complete accounting of membership since the Fellowship's 1970 founding. Instead, its starting point is the membership as of Winter 1977-78 (likely when the roster was first loaded onto the Fellowship's new computer system.) With a few exceptions, it omits all those "inactive members" who left the Fellowship in the first seven years.
The December 1977 "Renaissance Vine" reported a then-current membership of 1,055, so the Fellowship has had a net gain of about 700 in the intervening 18 years. (By 2005, the population would grow to about 2,200 before beginning to decline. In October 2016, the Fellowship will number just 1,565 members. This despite, or perhaps because of, the advent of the internet.)]
