AWA
Also known as: Average Weekly Attendance
The standard baseline metric for church size and health.
AWA (Average Weekly Attendance) is the most widely used metric in the church world for measuring congregation size. It represents the average number of people attending worship services on a given Sunday, calculated over a defined period — typically a month, quarter, or year.
In Kingdom Metrics, AWA is calculated automatically from sensor data. Unlike manual headcounts or ChMS check-ins (which often undercount by 15-30%), sensor-based AWA captures every person who walks through the door, regardless of whether they check in.
Why it matters for your church: AWA is the lingua franca of church health. Denominations use it for benchmarking, church planters track it as a growth indicator, and multi-site churches use it to compare campuses. Having an accurate, automated AWA — rather than a volunteer's best guess — gives your leadership team a reliable foundation for every other metric and decision.