By Steve Salyards
A little under a year ago I did an analysis of some church dismissals from Tropical Florida and Mississippi Presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). In each presbytery multiple churches were dismissed permitting a statistical comparison of the sizes of those churches with the churches across the presbytery and the analysis found that the churches requesting dismissal were typically larger than the churches in the presbytery as a whole.
Now a similar situation has presented itself in the Presbytery of Alaska that allows me to once again go into statistical analysis mode.
The Presbytery web site contains this short news statement:
The Presbytery of Alaska met in Haines on April 5-7, 2013, and having concluded the processes set out in “A GRACIOUS, PASTORAL RESONSE [sic] TO CHURCHES OF THE PRESBYTERY OF ALASKA REQUESTING DISAFFILIATION” dismissed to the Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterian [sic] these churches: Kake, Angoon, Hoonah, Chapel by the Lake, Haines, and Skagway.The Presbytery web site has been updated to list just the remaining nine churches.
At the one meeting this presbytery lost 2/5 of its 15 congregations. The question is whether this presbytery follows the previous pattern of church size distributions.
Read more at http://blog.gajunkie.com/2013/04/30/a-look-at-the-pcusa-dismissals-in-alaska.aspx
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Name any other business or institution that would lose 40% of it’s “market share” and continue to follow the business plan which led to those losses. Name any private business which suffered such losses in which the stockholders would permit the board of directors of such a business to remain in positions of trust?