Survey sent post attendance as part of follow up

I think there was an excellent survey or list of areas to cover with someone in that first call back and/or emailed out as well.

It covered areas like parking, etc.

Great quote that summarizes need to be a part of something

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one. – Jane Howard

Got side tracked today on survey stuff

Spent the afternoon trying to develop a quick survey that might work to get a pulse on the congregation and fill in some needed areas of information in prelude to triaging some things and a further deeper study/survey to be done later.  This is the 100th post.

Switching to Comcast

Since I already had them doing cable modem -- found a special that gives me even faster cable modem and free basic cable for $5 cheaper than I've been paying them for slower broadband and getting no free cable.

Peter

Is the "High Church" Trend in Episcopal Churches hurting attracting new members

One of the things I struggle with in attending Episcopal Churches is this seemingly hard core march to up the pageantry of the service and reintroduce more and more idiosyncratic actions.

Having been raised Roman Catholic and attending Catholic/parochial schools (except 3 years of public HS by choice) and a Catholic college that all required religious education -- I surprising enjoy a pretty high standard amount of pomp. I like the creeds, I like an apostolic church, I like the psalms, I like the gospel, I like the Lords Prayer, I like the retelling of the last supper and I think communion is required for me to feel I attended a true worship service.

But all the make a sign of the cross here, bow here, etc. (to an excessive level) which ranges from church to church and while it may be tradition -- I wonder how long and how recently these things have been re-added.  I also wonder how much of a user experience barrier these are -- i.e. someone visiting feeling very out of step.  Unless you have a full order of worship with inserted text and a diagram every time it can definitely feel overwhelming.

What is comes down to -- is that I think I am a low church person bordering on high church methodist but not really into the anyone saved today stuff.  But am definitely concerned that the Episcopal church seek to find a balance and see if all this additional stuff is really helpful or hurtful to integrating attendees -- especially those outside the Catholic/Anglican/Episcopalian tradition.  

Apologies for Typos / Missing words

Apparently somewhere between when the blood clots in my brain and my netbook keyboard a lot of letters and words get lost in my writing.  I've always had an issue with my brain being faster than my fingers -- my famous type is "doe snot" instead of "does not".  My attitude with writing is to get the idea out and edit later.   As far as this blog -- this is not in my mind "professional" quality vs. personal standard.

The longer the typing and the more initial re-edits while typing the worse these problems pop-up as I tend to then delete or fubar up previously good sentences when adding/changing something.

So please bare with me.