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Originally Posted by HERn
Does anyone know if the LC is not growing? The JW are growing, the Mormons are growing, why wouldn't the LC be not growing?
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Since the LC does not publish official membership statistics, it's hard to say for sure.
About a year ago I saw a powerpoint presentation online about a camp that the local churches in Southern California were purchasing. IIRC on one of the slides they listed some numbers stating that there are something like 50 local churches in the area with 6500 or so meeting on Lord's day.
There are no other numbers to compare that to so it's anyone's guess as to what those numbers were 10 or 20 years ago. Knowing how much LC leadership loves to purge detractors and even regions of the country, it seems fair to assume that any sizable increase has been offset by decreases elsewhere.