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Summer Church Growth
While historically a lot of churches (not so much Pentecostal ones) in summer see attendance drop the church I attend has gained about 100 people in attendance since summer started and last Sunday night we baptized 8 or 9 people.
Last Monday night I dropped in on our once a month meeting for new members or people interested in the history of the church, etc and I counted a little over 30 folks there.
When our church first started five years ago a large part of the congregation was college kids so you could really tell when Spring Break was going on or the summer vacation. Now that our demographic has broadened to include a lot of 30ish families and older folks that is not the case now.
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"I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
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"
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