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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover
While the numbers, when they are touted, should reflect those leaving/closing, it still shows the UPC as a growing church organization by todays USA standards. If the foreign field is included it makes the UPC a rapidly growing church denomination.
As to the Minister/church ratio, I see that as a tendency toward larger churches with more than one licensed minister. Our church 350 has six I believe.
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But I think that is the point. Why? We have a lot of large cities here in Ca with no UPC at all and a lot of other cities with just 1 UPC.
Here in my city there is 1 UPC and 2 english AOGs and 2 Spanish AOGs, although I think one might have closed.
And to be honest, there is a smaller city here that we often just throw in and consider to be part of the larger city I am in....there is another AOG there and no UPC