Everybody Wang Chung wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 7:43 pm
Can someone here show me this is anything but dismal news for the Church's future?
31223 wards & branches as of January 1st, 2022
31224 wards & branches as of October 1st, 2002
increase of 1 (.003% increase)
4009 stakes & districts as of January 1st, 2022
4020 stakes & districts as of October 1st, 2022
increase of 11 (.2% increase)
http://www.fullerconsideration.com/units.php
Everybody Wang Chung may want to weigh in, but i think the confusion here is the single "02" in his third line.
Looking at the reference he gave, the raw data underlying that page only goes back to 2010. considering that one "02" was as typo, i looked at the data from jan 1, 2022 to oct 1, 2022, and pulled out this:
2022-10-01 [3514 + 507] [24278 + 6951]
summing the brackets, we get:
4021 stakes and districts; 31229 wards and branches
2022-01-01 [3498 + 511] [24252 + 6971]
again summing the brackets:
4009 stakes and districts; 31223 wards and branches
I think this is closer to the comparison Everybody Wang Chung intended.