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The pandemic plunge
All church statistics for 2020 should carry a COVID-19 asterisk. While everyone expected the pandemic to shrink growth, we now know the extent: Convert baptisms cut in half, for instance, and new children of record down by nearly a third.
Independent researcher Matt Martinich, who religiously tracks these demographics at ldschurchgrowth.blogspot.com, sheds more light with some eye-popping observations:
Total membership • 16,663,663, up 98,627 (0.6%) from 16,565,036 in 2019.
“The last time the church reported an annual membership growth rate that was slower than 2020 was in 1857, when negative membership growth occurred (this was during the time of the reformation movement when church leaders advocated rebaptism to recommit to their covenants and to church teachings),” Martinich writes. “.The last time there was an increase of less than 100,000 for total church membership was in 1973, when there was a net increase of 87,750 members.”
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Lee County residents react to Johnson & Johnson pause
A Lee County man who helped encourage many people to get the coronavirus vaccine said he won’t stop advocating for vaccinations.
Posted: Apr 13, 2021 7:57 PM
Updated: Apr 13, 2021 9:23 PM
Posted By: Brianna Bynum
TUPELO, Miss. (WTVA) - A Lee County man who helped encourage many people to get the coronavirus vaccine said he won’t stop advocating for vaccinations. This after the CDC announced a hold on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for causing blood clots.
Robert Hall lost a best friend to the coronavirus. Despite the Johnson & Johnson pause, he said he still encourages people to fill their vaccination cards and get the other vaccines that are available.
Houlka clinic gives vaccines to residents in rural areas
Workers from GVS Care Medical Center teamed up with members of Project Elect to give vaccines to people who live in predominantly black or underserved communities.
Posted: Mar 10, 2021 6:36 PM
Updated: Mar 10, 2021 6:36 PM
Posted By: Alexis Jones