News Flash: Buffalo Herds Doing OK; Episcopalians Endangered

http://northernplainsanglicans.blogspot.com/2007/06/news-flash-buffalo-herds-doing-ok.html

[North Plains Anglicans] 8 June 2007--Super Duper Ueberblogger Kendall Harmon offers a discussion of truth in advertising – using the fuzzy statistics from the Episcopal Diocese of Montana as a case study.

So, we figured we would look in on the Diocese of South Dakota. At their website, they boast 92 Churches .

But, if you investigate their Average Sunday Attendance (ASA), you find it was 2238 in 2005(the last reporting year), down from 2583 in 2004, and THAT was down 10.1% from ’03…

92 congregations sharing 2,238 folks per Sunday yields an average of just under 25 per congregation (and falling).