Search Results: attendance (228)

Leading Ideas Photo of a plumber's hand holding a wrench vs. a photo of a person holding a Bible aloft at church
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…pastoral leadership. Fewer congregations now can financially support a full-time pastor. In the United Methodist Church, the number of churches with average attendance of 25 or fewer increased by 2,059,…

Leading Ideas Person worshipping in a small-congregation church
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…it better imitates the practices of big congregations. Or when the attendance numbers make it worth God’s RSVP. Small congregation worship matters for this simple, essential, primary, theological reason: God…

Leading Ideas 2022
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…patterns of worship and congregational life, worrying attendance trends, churches reevaluating their building needs, and underlying demographic changes that challenge assumptions many churches hold regarding their future. Read more now….

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…a resource from the Lewis Center 4 Clues for Inviting Others to Church Effectively by Doug Powe 50 Ways to Increase Worship Attendance, a free tip sheet from the Lewis…

Leading Ideas Sunbeam over a neighborhood church
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…As someone who works primarily with mainline congregations, I hear a familiar story. It revolves around declining and aging attendance, long-overdue maintenance, lack of missional imagination, and stretched budgets. Churches…

Leading Ideas Scissors cutting the apostrophe T off of the word CANT
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…that were once dynamic and vital now suffer from an aging membership, decline in attendance, economic crises, and an absence of youth and children. This fact is especially true in…

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