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Old 07-27-2014, 05:05 PM
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Re: Christian Life Center Stockton Question
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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?
Maybe it depends on when. Perhaps those seats are empty because they are wear the choir sits?

In any case, there was a discussion I believe here about dwindling attendance since daddy left and son took over
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