EASTER ATTENDANCE
(Sunday) Not that I live or die by such things but we were down by about 50 people from what happened last Easter. We had added an additional service because we were maxed out last year and our over all attendance this year is higher than last year. The services went well in spite of the lower turn-out.

Interestingly, the Good Friday service that our ministerial association put on also seemed to be lower than last year, too. We were expecting significantly higher numbers because of the interest generated by the Passion movie. But that seemed to have little, if any, impact.

I remember that after 9-11 a lot of churches around the US experienced a great surge in attendance. But the churches in Turlock didn't seem to go up or down at all. This place marches to the beat of its own drum.