Thursday, September 24, 2020

Children Before the Exodus

I estimate that there are 200 people present at this combined Church service -- most of them children (you may click on the image to enlarge). I would guess that this was around 1980. It is in the Methodist Church Sea Point, in Cape Town's Atlantic Area, where I twice ministered. What is extraordinary about this photo is that, within a few years, there was an exodus of children and young families from the area. Very few children were left. OBSERVATION: Then, thirty years later, there was an influx, so that my Church had 30-40 children attending either Youth or Sunday School in a good week around 2010. Churches may need to think fast, with such changes.

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