Rumors of 19 year old females going on missions

[Northwestcoug]

This may not be the best thread for this, but here's an interesting PFS article:

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019...church-growth/

Anybody follow this Martinich guy? He's pretty obsessed about church demographics, and it seems like he has some Pelagius-level statistics chops. Anyways, in response to the falling church growth rate, he published his proposals to help the missionary program. It's interesting, though when PFS talked to the managing director of the missionary program about it, he didn't seem too gung ho about his ideas.

And here's a tidbit that some of us discussed a few years back in this thread: the ratio of converts per missionary has fallen to 3.5. It was 6-8 in the 70-80's.

[clackamascoug]

This may not be the best thread for this, but here's an interesting PFS article:

https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019...church-growth/

Anybody follow this Martinich guy? He's pretty obsessed about church demographics, and it seems like he has some Pelagius-level statistics chops. Anyways, in response to the falling church growth rate, he published his proposals to help the missionary program. It's interesting, though when PFS talked to the managing director of the missionary program about it, he didn't seem too gung ho about his ideas.

And here's a tidbit that some of us discussed a few years back in this thread: the ratio of converts per missionary has fallen to 3.5. It was 6-8 in the 70-80's.

That's because we got out there and knocked - took it to the people - made it happen. We weren't little snowflakes afraid to look someone in the eye!

[frank ryan]

That's because we got out there and knocked - took it to the people - made it happen. We weren't little snowflakes afraid to look someone in the eye!

No it's because you didn't have to deal with the internet