{"id":281,"date":"2015-12-28T10:13:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T16:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/decastro\/?p=281"},"modified":"2015-12-28T10:13:33","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T16:13:33","slug":"2015-merge-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/decastro\/2015\/12\/2015-merge-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Merge Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MERGE numbers for 2015\u2026<\/p>\n<p>1. We are going to meet our goal for 2015. Our goal was to have at least 494 participants in 2015 and we will probably reach 505-510 participants.<\/p>\n<p>2. Our ministry numbers increase for 2015 will be 0%, but that is after growing 18% in 2013 and 16% in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>3. Our largest fall (September-December) in history was 47 participants in 2012. Our second-largest was 40. That means the fall of 2015 will be the second-largest in our history, with the possibility of it being the largest ever!<\/p>\n<p>4. 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