If you had the floor for 10 minutes what would you say/ask?????

[Ferd]

"DIVIDE THE CAMP AND GET IT OVER WITH!"


and do it peaceably.

[Neck]

Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea

What's the UPCI growth rate over that same time???

1 left 1 came in....

[Neck]

Originally Posted by Ferd

I am old enough to remember 1978. the above statement is false.

What new outreach or evangelism has been started in the past 30 years?

[Neck]

Originally Posted by Ferd

"DIVIDE THE CAMP AND GET IT OVER WITH!"


and do it peaceably.

I am moving on from this thread.

Nathan Eckstadt

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by Neckstadt

What new outreach or evangelism has been started in the past 30 years?

Minister's Wives Breakfast.

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by Neckstadt

What new outreach or evangelism has been started in the past 30 years?

We now have a department in Home Missions called "Amish Evangelism".

And no, I am not joking. Does anyone see the irony?

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Originally Posted by Pastor Poster

Are you referring to his book "Our God is One"?

If so, what figures, the UPC or all Apostolics?

I have heard stats from this book that "the AOG is shrinking and we are growing." Your stats state the AOG grew by 15%. So, is it another Apostolic Legend that the AOG is shrinking?

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by Neckstadt

What new outreach or evangelism has been started in the past 30 years?

We created the "Why I Do Not Have a Television" tract.
Does that count?

[Nahum]

Originally Posted by BoredOutOfMyMind

I have heard stats from this book that "the AOG is shrinking and we are growing." Your stats state the AOG grew by 15%. So, is it another Apostolic Legend that the AOG is shrinking?

If we are to trust the AOG's own numbers they have grown incredibly in the last 10 measured years. Our own orgs published numbers pale in comparison.

For instance, the attendance increase since 1994 that I posted from the AOG equals almost a third of THE ENTIRE UPC in North America.

Carp and Neck
How would you improve on the corporate structure of the UPCI?
It already is broken down into business modules that in state settings can be very responsive (and sometimes not so).
It does not have an authoritarian head - it perhaps could be more responsive if it did.
Leadership functions within the parameters of the corporate guidelines with the inherent boundaries and limitations.
Now, here is the challenge. A Corporation with a Board of Directors can make a decision and implement it on their own timetable. A religious organization that functions in a congregational and ministerial membership model cannot. Major issues and even minor pricing issues such as membership fees must be passed by the General Conference.
Within those parameters what would you have to say to the General Board.

Guy
The Secret Boardman Wannabe