Sentences with phrase «year of declining membership»

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The 1950s were harsh years for the congregation» declining membership, lack of support from neighboring congregations, desperate financial problems, and, from the district, lack of sympathy and understanding.

This marks its sixth straight year of membership decline.

After years of steady growth, the Assemblies of God reached a plateau, with membership figures for 1988 and 1989 actually declining slightly.

Over that same period of time, the last thirty to forty years, as you all know, there's been a major decline in the membership of mainline churches.

Of course, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod has suffered its own membership losses in recent years, experiencing a membership decline about half that of the ELCA over the same time period (down 12 percent, compared to the ELCA's 23 - percent dropOf course, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod has suffered its own membership losses in recent years, experiencing a membership decline about half that of the ELCA over the same time period (down 12 percent, compared to the ELCA's 23 - percent dropof the ELCA over the same time period (down 12 percent, compared to the ELCA's 23 - percent drop).

This shift, which first affected college youth, has spread to other youth and also to large sectors of adults, to the extent that some denominations of moderate and conservative theology have also been experiencing membership decline in the past few years.

At midpoint, in its fifteenth year, the church began its drastic decline in worship attendance, even though total membership continued to increase.15 The church abused itself in other ways: it eliminated the posts of associate pastor and youth minister; it sold off its adjacent property.

No subject has commanded as much attention among pastors and denominational leaders in recent years as that of declining membership in formerly main - line churches.

During the last ten years, combined communicant membership of all Protestant denominations declined by 9.5 percent (4,498,242), while the national population increased by 11.4 percent (24,153,000).

After years of setbacks and declining membership nationally, labor groups were seen as being on the offensive in the last year with successful efforts in some states to increase the minimum wage to $ 15 — a major union - led effort that initially began by focusing on fast food restaurants.

Labour party membership could disappear within seven years if the current rate of decline continues, a candidate for the deputy leadership warned yesterday.

Trade union membership levels have been in decline over the last 30 years and are now at their lowest levels since the outbreak of the Second World War.

Recent years have seen an increase in membership of some of the smaller parties but this has not compensated for the overall decline in party membership across the UK.

Recent years have seen an increase in membership of some of the smaller parties, most notably UKIP, the SNP and the Green Party, but this has not compensated for the overall decline in party membership across the UK.

8/5/16 While Barack Obama's historic visit to Hiroshima as the first sitting U.S. president in May highlighted again the need to eliminate nuclear weapons, Japan's major anti-nuclear group, which has led the movement for 60 years at home and abroad, sees a rocky road ahead as its membership declines with the passing of atomic bomb survivors.

Membership in the National Congress of Parents and Teachers rose for the third consecutive year last year, reversing a 20 - year pattern of decline, according to pleased pta officials.

Already, the National Education Association has lost 230,000 members, or 7 percent of its membership, in the past few years and is projecting a further decline this year.

During the first two years of Windham Middle School's membership in the Commissioner's Network, teacher, staff, and administrator turnover reached a new high, while student morale and «achievement» declined significantly.

The Booksellers Association last week released its annual membership figures, and they made for grim reading for lovers of independent bookshops: for the sixth year running, the total number of indies on the UK high street remained in decline.

Membership in the booksellers association has increased for two straight years after decades of decline, and independents are encouraged by the Nook because they think it demonstrates that old - fashioned bookstores, «showrooms,» remain the best way to promote books.

(Luckily, after I pestered them about this for a few years they made that part of the membership package optional and issue the correct letter saying that it was declined.)

Founded in 1977 by a group of local artists, to date the nonprofit has been housed in five different spaces, expanded beyond the visual arts to include literature, music, drama, dance, and film programming, and, in the face of recent years» declining membership and attendance, fought hard to keep its doors open.

Incidentally, the ABA has actually taken this approach, with a $ 225 membership for solos of ten years or more, and declining for solos with less experience (though by the time you add up section memberships, you're still looking at a bill of close to $ 400).

But we don't care because in five years, most of you won't be here if CREA's predictions of declining membership are correct, and those who will be here won't remember because of the only certain prediction I can make — we're getting older.