Ghost Town
Had good services this weekend, but DC definitely turns into a ghost town over the holidays. Especially when your church is 70% single twenty-somethings. Hardly anybody is from here so everyone heads home for the holidays. For what it's worth, our attendance on a holiday weekend is about 33% of our normal attendance! How crazy is that. Of course, the upside is that I can always find a parking spot right in front of our house.
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The Bridge has looked like a ghost town these past two Sundays, too! Almost half of our folks actually live in DC. As you know, this our first Christmas season as a church. Gotta admit. For a church planter, it can be a bit scary seeing everyone disappear three months into the game. Nice to know I wasn't hallucinating. We have a special holiday presentation next Sunday, but I doubt people will cut their travels short to be there. :-) Happy Holidays to you and the family. -Jumaine
The Bridge has looked like a ghost town these past two Sundays, too! Almost half of our folks actually live in DC. As you know, this our first Christmas season as a church. Gotta admit. For a church planter, it can be a bit scary seeing everyone disappear three months into the game. Nice to know I wasn't hallucinating. We have a special holiday presentation next Sunday, but I doubt people will cut their travels short to be there. :-) Happy Holidays to you and the family. -Jumaine
I'm with you...our plant drops by about 30% on Thanksgiving and Christmas...Lots of singles and young families who are transplants to the area...Regardless of attendance numbers we still had about 60 guest today and 26 people accepted Christ...those are the numbers that matter the most!
Merry Christmas!
We can only imagine the number of great conversations all across this country that will include the amazing story of Jesus because of the work of NCC. -Dan
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