Since when did the church in West Monroe run so many people. I haven't been there in years -- but i can't imagine that many going there.
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I would have to agree that the numbers are very inflated. For example, Fresno dosn't have that type of capacity. Now if your talking about the conference they have each year, yes, but not the church as a whole. Same for Stockton. they have never had 5000 for a regular service. Now for a conference, maybe. The rock is about right. Give and take a service or two. Don't know much about the other churches in Cali. Bro Mooney, When he has all the students and staff and church together, maybe, but if you have ever watched a service of his, that church is never full. Just my input.
I've been to the Rock but it's been about a year or so since I was there...if they had 800 I'd be suprised....unless they've grown 1200+ in one year???
I've been to the Rock but it's been about a year or so since I was there...if they had 800 I'd be suprised....unless they've grown 1200+ in one year???
My wife's grandmother attends one of the churches on the list and she was just commenting the other day about how small the church had become.
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That is what I was thinking. I was last there a couple of years ago but counted only around 400 people on a Sunday morning.
I have been told they have had growth since then but certainly not four times that number.
I would guess FPC JAX runs around 600, maybe 800 max.
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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.
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"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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The person who posted the information said he thought the figures were from 2007. They would have to be fairly recent since Myles Young is listed as pastor from the Rock Church.
I', pretty sure I saw this a few years back, but I could be mistaken. Either way, I do think that there may sometimes be a discrepancy between how many official "members" a church has on its roll, and how many faithful attenders they have every service. Now some of this could just be wild exageration, but I know that at our church there would be a somewhat significant discrepency.
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The church I attend has two congregations. We have a Spanish congregation and an English one. The English has grown by leaps and bounds in the last 4 years. We have a stead 225 to 250. Our Spanish was running, and I am not sure if it still does since all the illegal scare around here, around 800 to 850 regularly. Now we could easily have almost 325 on a special service in the English and near 1000 for the Spanish. Those are not often but at least a couple times a year. So do we take the 1325 as our number????
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I know, we had special services over a weekend and had almost 3500 come through in that weekend. Can we use that number instead?
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