Pretty good! Choir sang a nice anthem. Sang "Rock of Age", which slaps ("Be of sin the double cure, / Save me from its guilt and power."). Attendance is still going pretty study, though who is in the room shifts in thirds, which is weird.
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I grew up with that hymn! And that *is* weird. Is it all regulars or is it because new people visit regularly?
aug 25, 2025, 11:21 am • 0 0 • view
We have a mix of people who have attended here a long time, people new but regular within the last 2.5 years, and guests, and few are "every Sunday" attendees. So yesterday was a lot of long time people who had not been in a 2-4 weeks and fewer of our 2.5 people
aug 25, 2025, 11:24 am • 1 0 • view
Interesting. Has school started yet? I know that always causes a shift for us.
aug 25, 2025, 11:26 am • 0 0 • view
Yes, we're a week and a half into public schools starting and 1 week into the university. For our families with school age children, attendance is sporadic and largely unrelated to anything I can discern. I heard recently people attend church on average 1.8 times a month, so I think it's that 1/
aug 25, 2025, 11:29 am • 1 0 • view
this is reflected in how people attend. So if we have 55-60 people at 10:30am on a given, it's made up of a percentage of the 80-100 people who attend, on average, 1.8 times per month. I will say, the ones who have come longer do tend to be MIA in the summer, and most of them were back yesterday
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