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Date: 2023-08-21 09:53 am (UTC)Being over-churched by 5x doesn't seem very sustainable. Indicates that they think they can sustain a church with 60 congregants. Which sounds expensive per congregant.
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Date: 2023-08-21 10:13 am (UTC)Say a Church of Scotland minister costs £40k a year, then each of the 300 people in the congregation need to be chipping in about £150 a year just for staffing one minister.
I suppose the sustainability depends on how much of an endowment the church has. If I'm reading the latest accounts correctly they have about £50m in income from investments.
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Date: 2023-08-21 10:23 am (UTC)Checking, it seems like there are around 70 CoS churches in Edinburgh:
https://cos.churchofscotland.org.uk/church-finder/
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Date: 2023-08-21 10:25 am (UTC)You and I should join.
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Date: 2023-08-21 10:33 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-08-21 03:09 pm (UTC)Not that I think it'll get *that* low. And also, they will have a bunch of pension liabilities and suchlike.
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Date: 2023-08-21 03:32 pm (UTC)