Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. I disagree. I think it would be important to know who really is a member of your church. I think it would be important to know who has stopped coming to your church because they no longer reside in the area, and who is still in the area but no longer attends for one reason or another. It would very likely be worthwhile to talk to some of those people and find out why they stopped attending. Maybe you could find a way to get them to come back!
Quite a few of these bishops would not even have their jobs were the numbers accurately calculated on the basis of ASA instead of being tied to the somewhat murky "overall" membership numbers. The number of delegates a parish is allowed to have at diocesan convention is tied to membership figures.
$Howard made the "1100 stayed" assertion in the diocesan newsletter, which is read by a pastors and lay leaders who know full well the difference between membership and actual attendance. Surely $Howard would know this, which makes me wonder if he's really trying to dilude himself into thinking to situation isn't as bad as it really is.