History Unearthed

Packing books today -- of which there are several thousand in my home -- I came across a history of my old Church St. David's Congregational. It closes with the close of my ten-year ministry at the turn of 1993 / 1994: "Every major task we have set our hands to in the last 10 years has succeeded. All new groups, all new services, and all new financial undertakings have been blessed by the Lord." Then follow a few "people statistics": Church attendance increased from an average 45 to 150 (200+ peak), and the Church roll increased from 98 to 172 families. OBSERVATION: Yet interestingly, more than half of the original 98 families were lost over ten years. (I am now more "guarded", though, about what was achieved during my ministry there).