{"id":29877,"date":"2022-11-29T20:10:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T01:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=29877"},"modified":"2022-11-29T20:10:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T01:10:44","slug":"diocese-of-niagara-church-attendance-down-by-35-50-revenue-down-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-church-attendance-down-by-35-50-revenue-down-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of Niagara church attendance down by 35-50%, revenue down 23%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reduction in church attendance was announced by Bishop Susan Bell at the recent Diocese of Niagara synod. She noted that she could <em>\u201cfeel the anxiety in the room\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read it all <a href=\"https:\/\/niagaraanglican.ca\/uploads\/newspaper\/docs\/2022\/december.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-29878\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-29_195108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"613\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-29_195108.jpg 613w, https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022-11-29_195108-277x300.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 613px) 100vw, 613px\" \/>For instance: and let me clear\u2014what 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\u2014through 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even worse:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have experienced some worrying attrition in our stewardship as well. Our diocesan revenue is forecast to be down about 23% in 2023<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Never fear, the diocese has a Mission Action Plan, the latest in a long line of meaningless clich\u00e9-ridden banalities designed to bore parishioners to the point where they open their wallets to make it stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reduction in church attendance was announced by Bishop Susan Bell at the recent Diocese of Niagara synod. She noted that she could \u201cfeel the anxiety in the room\u201d. Read it all here: For instance: and let me clear\u2014what follows &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-niagara-church-attendance-down-by-35-50-revenue-down-23\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-niagara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}