1 /5 Tober Hanno: If you’re not a member of the “in group” at Woodside UMC, then attending worship there may feel like being a ghost. Members will look right past you as if you didn’t exist—even the pastor does. You’ll be asking yourself, after your visit, if you’re going to be treated as if you weren’t even there, then why make the effort to show up in the first place?
News headlines frequently note the precipitous fall in attendance in mainline churches. I’ll let you infer the cause for this phenomenon.
