The reduction in church attendance was announced by Bishop Susan Bell at the recent Diocese of Niagara synod. She noted that she could “feel the anxiety in the room”.
Read it all here:
For instance: and let me clear—what follows is not to deny our recent experience, but it does put it in necessary context. We are all concerned about attendance: through the necessary closure period, we faced some attrition—through death, movement, and attenuation of relationship. All unfortunate; mostly all unavoidable. But fact, nonetheless. Anecdotally, where we stand mid-pandemic, is that our people have returned at a rate of 50-65% generally. I know there are places where the figure is lower or higher but this seems to be the average, if slow, trend.
Even worse:
We have experienced some worrying attrition in our stewardship as well. Our diocesan revenue is forecast to be down about 23% in 2023
Never fear, the diocese has a Mission Action Plan, the latest in a long line of meaningless cliché-ridden banalities designed to bore parishioners to the point where they open their wallets to make it stop.
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Outstanding ability to ignore the obvious …
Certainly the so-called bishop knows the reason but is not prepared to acknowledge the fact that when you worship the god of political expediency you can hardly call yourself a genuine Christian. The time has long since passed for the apostates to make a firm stand for true genuine Christianity.
Sarah Hey once likened this kind of nose dive as a plane that augers into the ground.
Maybe if they hadn’t imposed jab passports at the door on reopening.
Bring on the drag queens. See if that will boost attendance.
I’m still heartbroken at having to leave my beloved Anglican tradition. I mourn
because of it.
I used to think women priests were a good idea but when I see what they’ve, women priests, have done to our beloved tradition, I feel St Paul might have had a valid point after all.
“The WOMAN whom You put here to be with me … SHE …”?!!! I Cor. 14:26-40: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-cor-1426-40-dr-priscilla-turner/
Much more scriptural than ‘Cherchez la femme’ is to ask, “Should women be priests?” and to answer, “No, and neither should men!”. It was not the female of the species who pioneered same-sex ‘marriage’, or any other vice which privileges the male orgasm. See Mt. 5:27-32: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mt-527-32-dr-priscilla-turner/
And the whole of my book with J.I. Packer Holy Homosex: This and That which may be bought everywhere, and which David so kindly hosts here: https://www.anglicansamizdat.net/wordpress/dr-priscilla-turner/
My wife and I had occasion to be in the home City of one of Canada’s smaller ACoC diocese last week-end. We chose to watch the service from the Cathedral online. If the video is correct, there were less than 20 persons inclusive of clergy and choir (3) in attendance. We are aware that this diocese is in a dire fiscal situation. How do they keep their doors open?
This article regarding the Diocese of Niagara suggests, as a friend put it, ‘they seem to be looking for solutions to their problems similar to the person looking for a gas leak with a match’.
Lord have mercy!