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Originally Posted by CC1
Our church growth continues to amaze me. We just added about another 100 chairs in the sanctuary. Our growth has been a lot with young families and some middle aged folks enlarging our demographic from being heavy on college age members (which was natural since our states largest university is in our town)
I checked Sunday before last and we had 693 folks between the three services and thought that was amazing. Just now I checked and today we had 759 folks. This at a church that started with probably a dozen people or less four years ago.
Moving to our new building this past Spring was truly a matter of God blessing us with perfect timing as there is no way we could have accomodated our growth in our previous building. Our max seating capacity where we were was about 200 so over three services we could only handle 600. Since the 9 am service was the least attended by the time we moved we were over capacity at the 11 am and 6 pm. Our new building now seats around 500 so we can handle 1,500 folks over the three services. However we need more Sunday School space already!
I am excited about the number of people we are reaching. I have never seen anything like it. I know a lot of good people that have planted churches and struggled with years to breath through and have growth. Every situation is different and ours has just happened to click with our community.
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Your church is doing a heckavu lot more than a few people who call guys holding a beer "drunks!" as they walk by.