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kwassa

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5. We are in a growing church now .... that was failing 7 or 8 years ago.

Tue Dec 17, 2013, 10:35 PM

Dec 2013

The reason is a complete change of management, with a new choir director who was great with children's choirs. The result is about 80 kids in different children's choirs, including my daughter. It is pulling in the key demographic of families with young children, and has grown some 30 % in the past five years.

Nothing has changed about the service. The newish rector is also dynamic and welcoming, and as he came from the world of business he knows how to make things run right.

and we left a church that has a deeply spiritual rector who couldn't run things and didn't understand the need to create community or have the skills to do it. That church has lost 40-50% of it's membership in the past 7 years, from the point that he took it over.

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