Current 'Membership'186,814 Number of congregations 333
Average congregation size 561 (numbers from lds.org)
Hmmm...
Anyone out there in the UK have a congregation size of 561?
My ward gets less than 100 people out on a Sunday, which against the average is less than 18% activity... This would be very similar across all the wards in my stake (some higher some lower).
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/21/2011 08:40AM by Stumbling.
Sounds about right. The congregational size of 561 or more does not equate to attendance. The number is a reflection of those on the ward roster. In almost all cases the ward records will have a small portion of actual members regularly attending. I dealt with a ward on my mission with over 650 persons on the Bishop's records. After going through the entire roster I found the following.
1/3 of the people were not even living in those addresses and were unavailable to contact.
1/3 were not active, at all. Probably 10-20 percent of these were DO NOT CONTACTS * or warnings Not to contact because they were dangerous with various details.
the last 1/3 were in the boundaries, actually lived there and existed, potentially willing to go, but many of those did not attend regularly or even monthly. 650+ on the records and 60-110 attended church regularly. *numbers fluctuated in that range.
Working with many other ward lists, this seemed to be the norm. HUGE list, few numbers. This is likely the Non-Utah norm. In cali I have seen many lists where its around half/half and in rare cases 3/4 in pretty highly mormon populated areas.
'in body but not in spirit' is a good way of putting it
I'm in a similar boat. I'm hoping to gradually expose my disbelief and why slowly and in small bite size chunks to my wife. She is TBM so it will be a very very slow process.
Stumbling, I'm still in for that same reason- good luck with it! Just take it very very slow...
Have you seen the New Order Mormon website and forum? (Admin, I think I can point to NoM here- if not, apologies!) Most of them still attend, but a large majority still do only because of their spouses and family.