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Christian Life Center Stockton Question
If anybody reading this attends or has close ties to Christian Life Center Stockton, I have some questions.
I was watching CLC's webcast this morning and noticed from the limited view of the medium shot camera that the auditorium had a lot of empty seats.
I know that they built a huge auditorium seating around 5,000 a few years ago so you could have a lot of people in it and it still be half empty. Here are my questions;
1. Does anybody have actual knowledge (not guessing) of what Sunday attendance is at CLC?
2. Is the size of the Sunday morning service affected by a lot of people being outside of the sanctuary in Sunday School, etc?
3. Is the Sunday night congregation size bigger than the Sunday morning one in the Sanctuary? Any idea how many in attendance on a typical Sunday night?
4. Has CLC experienced growth, maintained the same size, or shrunk in the last 5 years? The last 10 years?
5. Are there other UPC and exUPC churches in the area? If so have they affected CLC attendance?
EDIT: I just did a search of AFF and found a posting from Sweet Pea I think from 2009 saying that Lifesong Church in Stockton was originally a spin off / daughter work of CLC and went "charismatic" in the early 2000's. Additionally I believe Mark Segraves, former CLC instructor and son of Daniel Segraves, is the Asst. Pastor there. Has Lifesong affected the size of CLC?
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Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
Last edited by CC1; 07-27-2014 at 01:05 PM.
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