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Assemblies of God on the Rise

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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 Last month, Southern Baptists reported its seventh straight year of declining numbers. Yet, even as the largest American Protestant denomination, along with many other Mainline denominations, continue to lose members, the charismatic Assembles of God has experienced its 24th year of attendance growth in the United States.

The Pentecostal denomination, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, reported an uptick of just over 30,000 in attendance from 2012 to 2013, bringing their total number of adherents to 3.1 million, up from 3.09 million.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/as-southern-baptist-mainline-churches-lag-assemblies-of-god-booms-121693/

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