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I don’t remember a count of members, but membership would be much higher than that. Not seen a report for a year but memory was Sunday morning attendance was around 3000 and sure membership would be higher. You could check attendance with a report. Not sure what happens with all the membership of the closed churches. I know when we merged with a church of 6 their membership was close to 200

Are members of several other churches?That will skew things a bit. Plus how many of them are dead but still on the roll. (Might even be voting demoncrat)

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I remember in my younger years we chided the larger denominations for having 500 members and 100 in attendance...And then there is a personal example, we built and moved to another town. We attended the COG there and the church requested out transfer, and we were given 'The Right Hand of Fellowship.' Years later we built back in the first town and attended our original church. So we decided to transfer back. The clerk said, We knew you would be back so the pastor said leave them on the books.We have lived in several states and transferred to other COG's. We are probably members all over the country! hahaha Including Missouri. Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/

Looks like someone got their hundreds and thousands mixed up. Mistaking 16,000+ for 1600+, not hard to do in a hurry. Messing with member numbers isn't too bad, but mama would be very upset in the Bank account and that happened in $'s! Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/

Re: Of course how many members...

I remember in my younger years we chided the larger denominations for having 500 members and 100 in attendance...And then there is a personal example, we built and moved to another town. We attended the COG there and the church requested out transfer, and we were given 'The Right Hand of Fellowship.' Years later we built back in the first town and attended our original church. So we decided to transfer back. The clerk said, We knew you would be back so the pastor said leave them on the books.We have lived in several states and transferred to other COG's. We are probably members all over the country! hahaha Including Missouri. I have been following membership status for years. I'm not in to numerology, but I have learned some interesting facts from numbers. In the COGOP we use to keep tight membership roles - hard to join, easy to get turned out, if you moved you need to transfer, pastor/clerks must keep current addresses of members - but now we have welcomed David's sin of pride in numbers. We though we had a great addition in the Congo - a reported 400 K members. As I set in our assembly and run the numbers, I found that the number of members to local churches was exactly 1,200 per. Since then leadership in Africa has changed and the numbers are a little more realistic. Will judgement come on denominations who inflate their membership numbers in an effort to justify their leadership and their projected image? We all may be in danger of judgement as David was. As an example the COGIC once claimed something like 6 million members. Now it their were 6 million members in the African-American COGIC, it seems that their influence would be transformation on the 42 million African-Americans in this nation. Especially considering the numbers reported from other African-American denominations.Tell me again, what are the seven things the Lord hates?

In your opinion?We have people on roles unseen for decades or even pushing up daisies. How big of an impact would it have on salaries and egos if we were honest

Illinois is in trouble

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