Here’s the "box score" for this past weekend at Granger Community Church.
Music: "I Still Believe" by Jeremy Camp
Message: "Lost and Confused" — Lori Salierno, CEO of Celebrate Life International, talked about the times when we are facing hardships and are confused and are asking the question why? She talked about Paul’s "thorn" and how God’s grace is always sufficient as we face difficulties and confusion. In fact, it’s in our weaknesses that we rely on God and are at our strongest. (II Corinthians 12)
Service Highlights: The service included a drama that preceded the message. It portrayed one of the survivor’s from the plane crash interacting with "Spaulding" as she discussed her situation.
Stats: 5,071 total attendance (3,959 adults + 1,112 kids); 16.5% increase from the same weekend last year
Percentage of weekend attendance by service:
- Sun 10:15 am = 30%
- Sat 5:30 pm = 19%
- Sun 11:45 am = 19%
- Sun 8:45 am = 18%
- Sat 7:30 pm = 14%
Final Notes: If you’re monitoring our attendance trends by service, you’ll notice that the Saturday service at 7:30 pm dropped quite a bit from the previous week. That service happened to be at the same time as the Notre Dame/Purdue football game. Isn’t it fun to see what impacts attendance patterns as different churches?
Who WASN’T watching the Purdue/Notre Dame game?!! Maybe it just feels like that because I’m at Purdue. Great game… well, at least for you guys anyway.
So in the scheme of things, how will church compete with football games?
I guess we shouldn’t…
Bumble, if you’re a Christ-follower and you live in South Bend, the spiritually mature thing to do is watch the Notre Dame game…and pray the Purdue and Michigan fans turn their hearts toward God.
tony