How is the attendance in your house of Worship?

[hrmjustin]

Going up or down?

In my denomination (Episcopalian) overall we are not a growing church, but here in NYC we have some good numbers. My parish is growing and is in the black.

I wonder if anyone has noticed any trends of late. They say attendance is going down but I don't see it in my parish.

[rrneck]

1. Pretty good...

Pay no attention to me, I'm in a silly mood.

[hrmjustin]

2. No that is coffee hour for Episcopalians.

[rrneck]

3. Gah! Sign me up. nt

[TexasProgresive]

4. Where 2 or more are gathered...

there's sure to be a 5th.

Couldn't resist, sorry.

Edited to change or to are-gag!

[TexasProgresive]

5. Going up slightly-no outstanding debts

[rug]

6. Standing room only today.

I like it when it's packed like that, no kneeling.

[hrmjustin]

8. Many Episcopal cathedrals like St. John the Divine have no kneelers.

In my parish half the people kneel during the Eucharistic Prayer and the other half stand. I stand!

[rug]

10. I think Orthodox churches don't have pews.

But that may be changing.

[hrmjustin]

11. Russians don't but the Greeks do.

[GeorgeGist]

7. My house of worship is full ...

everyday.

[okasha]

9. Thousands,

if you count the deer, the bobcats, the birds, the jackrabbits, the skunks, the foxes and coyotes, butterflies and other insects, the trees--and of course, the humans.

[Marrah_G]

12. Mine doesn't have a house

And it's impossible to get an accurate count due the nature of the religion itself. I will say that I have seen the numbers grow quite a bit in my 20 years as a Wiccan. If you add in all types of Pagans/neo-Pagans I think the numbers have grown even more.

[Meshuga]

13. Not much change through the years

We are a small Reform Jewish congregation that kind of keeps the services extremely brief because we prefer to shmooz and have discussions/classes. So we are very different than the bigger congregations in the area that offer full service. Consequently, our number of official members has been consistently small through the years.

However, our number of attendants increase dramatically when we have our High Holiday services where we get a 3:1 ratio of non-congregants vs congregants attending the services.

In other words, the attendance of the non-affiliated (the Jewish version of the "nones&quot is pretty high on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

[ButterflyBlood]

14. Growing very rapidly

Of course we are a much newer church.