Abstract
My wife Holly and I arrived at Vista Del Mar Baptist Church (VDMBC) in Pacifica, California, a suburb of San Francisco, just three weeks shy of Easter in the year 2000. VDMBC began in the garage of a tract home in the 1950s. After two decades of consistent growth, the congregation dedicated an attractive 200-seat sanctuary in 1976. Regrettably, the next two decades brought consistent decline and, when I arrived as the new pastor in 2000, the church had returned to a garage-sized congregation. Having no staff to direct, secretary to talk to, or walls to paint, I decided to set up “office” in the marketplace of future attenders. With a cup of coffee in hand and laptop open, I would set to about my church work, and on the top of my things-to-do list: meeting the future attenders of VDMBC.
Recommended Citation
Burch, P. (2008). Misperceiving the Real Reasons for Non-attendance, Attribution Theory. Journal of the American Society for Church Growth, 19(1), 67-75. Retrieved from https://place.asburyseminary.edu/jascg/vol19/iss1/6
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