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08-22-2011, 09:10 AM
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This is still that!
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Re: Lets make a list...
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So does the UPCI still have a good sized membership? or is the organization becoming obsolete?
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This was probably not a good question. Stereotypes can be bad.
The UPC church I'm attending now is growing and thriving. I think it probably has more to do with the individual church leadership then the organization.
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08-22-2011, 09:33 AM
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Re: Lets make a list...
Hopefully HIS CHURCH is increasing and we (ourselves) are decreasing! More
of Christ Jesus and less of me! 
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08-22-2011, 09:36 AM
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The UPCI Number of ministers grew by 7% between 2000-2010, while the number of churches grew by less than one half of one percent.
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08-22-2011, 10:03 AM
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Re: Lets make a list...
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Originally Posted by Charnock
The UPCI Number of ministers grew by 7% between 2000-2010, while the number of churches grew by less than one half of one percent.
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More chairs and high-fives on the platform, then.
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08-22-2011, 04:26 PM
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Re: Lets make a list...
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Originally Posted by AtlantaBishop
Hey Hoovie, Where is it growing? I do not know of ONE church in Georgia that is as big today as it was 10 years ago. It may be growing overseas - but I really do not think it is growing here in the USA and if it is -WHERE?
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Then something is going wrong in Georgia. lol
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08-22-2011, 05:46 PM
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Re: Lets make a list...
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Hey Hoovie, Where is it growing? I do not know of ONE church in Georgia that is as big today as it was 10 years ago. It may be growing overseas - but I really do not think it is growing here in the USA and if it is -WHERE?
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Originally Posted by aegsm76
Atlanta West UPC is considerably larger than it was 10 years ago.
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Originally Posted by Charnock
The UPCI Number of ministers grew by 7% between 2000-2010, while the number of churches grew by less than one half of one percent.
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AB, The Church I attend is larger numerically than ten years ago.
Charnock is offing these statistics, however, we need to factor that several dozen left the UPC to form the WPF. No longer a part of UPC stats - true but for all practical purposes still there and not changed.
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08-22-2011, 06:14 PM
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Re: Lets make a list...
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I assure you, that the UPCI manual does not state that you have to have 'United Pentecostal Church' on the sign. Thats dumb....
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" Section 4. Identification.
1. Each church that is either affiliated with the United Pentecostal Church International or is pastored by a minister who holds license or credentials with the United Pentecostal Church International shall identify by sign or otherwise on the outside of its church building that it is associated with the United Pentecostal Church International.
However, this, like many of the manual "rules" are not enforced in some districts.
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08-22-2011, 06:22 PM
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Still growing. Not all Evangelical or Protestants can say that.
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Do you have statistics to back that up?
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08-22-2011, 07:53 PM
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AB, The Church I attend is larger numerically than ten years ago.
Charnock is offing these statistics, however, we need to factor that several dozen left the UPC to form the WPF. No longer a part of UPC stats - true but for all practical purposes still there and not changed.
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Same here!
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08-22-2011, 08:58 PM
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Re: Lets make a list...
The Experience Community Church in Murfreesboro is only two years old and never a UPC church but the pastor, Corey Trimble, was the youth pastor of the UPC church in Murfreesboro before becoming cruisematic and starting The Experience.
The Experience Community Church started two years ago with a handful of people and now runs around 150 people between the two services on Sunday.
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"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."
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