[impatient]

The moral of the story: "It's not the message, it's the way we're saying it."

Sound familiar?

If we are to attract new members...

...then we should try to stop hemorrhaging old members.

But, I digress. Now my church prints the entire service into the bulletin, and that seems to help those new to Anglicanism. Though, even with that, there are still traditions that crop up and cause my wife to ask "where are we?" One can't anticipate everything, I guess.

[kellynch]

I grew up in a '28 prayerbook church, but the closest church to where I've been living as an adult is a '79 parish. But now I'm back with a '28 parish (they use '79 for all Masses other than the 8:30), and I didn't remember the page numbers. Our parish is in Midtown Manhattan, and we get a lot of tourists (even at the 8:30!). I would guess that the number of '79 parishes is far greater than the number of '28 parishes, so announcing page numbers makes a lot of sense for us.