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Post by ralfy on Jun 6, 2023 6:27:13 GMT
I hear some have tithing, mandatory attendance, and business managers and strategic planners to handle the Church in the same way as they would a corporation. Also, the Churches look alike, and they have standard requirements for uniforms, etc., which means they know costs immediately and can make deals with construction and clothing material providers, and so forth. And other groups that they have, such as media corporations and events centers, are operated in the same way.
I think the success lies with business managers and strategic planners and the manner by which they determine revenues and allocate funds correctly.
I'm not clear on what role uniforms would play in these churches (I assume you're referring to Protestant churches). By "uniforms", do you mean choir robes, and/or vestments for their ministers, if they use them? I'm pretty sure that fundamentalist churches don't have any kind of distinctive clothing for their ministers --- they just wear, in the US at least, either business suits or anything else that would be seen as appropriate and modest. By the time you get towards more formal churches such as Presbyterian or Methodist, the ministers often wear some kind of simple robe, a faint echo of liturgical vestments. Some churches have choir robes (something you don't generally see in Catholic churches, BTW) and others would simply wear whatever they would wear to church otherwise. An interesting variation on this is found in African American churches, where people generally dress very nicely, men with smartly tailored suits, and the women wear often-elaborate hats as well as their "Sunday best". They really look sharp. In many such churches, the women wear all-white clothing, loose dresses and blouses, for their communion service and possibly otherwise. Driving by an AA church on Sunday morning and observing the people's dress can be an unforgettable experience. Also, I respect the role of business managers and strategic planning, but what happens when the demographic is so poor, that they simply can't afford to give much? I can foresee that this would be the norm, rather than the exception, in the Global South. In Poland in the 1990s and 2000s, when I attended Mass there, donations were very modest, and I asked my wife for advice on what to put into the collection basket. She advised me that anything over the equivalent of $10 would be so extraordinary as to render the sacristan speechless.
Usually office uniforms for church ministers, officers, choir members, office employees, etc. I hear that the demand is so high church members even set up their own garment factory to meet it.
Demographics is not an issue because the issue involves those parts of the world that make up the Global South.
Here's an example:
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Post by homeschooldad on Jun 6, 2023 7:26:33 GMT
I'm not clear on what role uniforms would play in these churches (I assume you're referring to Protestant churches). By "uniforms", do you mean choir robes, and/or vestments for their ministers, if they use them? I'm pretty sure that fundamentalist churches don't have any kind of distinctive clothing for their ministers --- they just wear, in the US at least, either business suits or anything else that would be seen as appropriate and modest. By the time you get towards more formal churches such as Presbyterian or Methodist, the ministers often wear some kind of simple robe, a faint echo of liturgical vestments. Some churches have choir robes (something you don't generally see in Catholic churches, BTW) and others would simply wear whatever they would wear to church otherwise. An interesting variation on this is found in African American churches, where people generally dress very nicely, men with smartly tailored suits, and the women wear often-elaborate hats as well as their "Sunday best". They really look sharp. In many such churches, the women wear all-white clothing, loose dresses and blouses, for their communion service and possibly otherwise. Driving by an AA church on Sunday morning and observing the people's dress can be an unforgettable experience. Also, I respect the role of business managers and strategic planning, but what happens when the demographic is so poor, that they simply can't afford to give much? I can foresee that this would be the norm, rather than the exception, in the Global South. In Poland in the 1990s and 2000s, when I attended Mass there, donations were very modest, and I asked my wife for advice on what to put into the collection basket. She advised me that anything over the equivalent of $10 would be so extraordinary as to render the sacristan speechless.
Usually office uniforms for church ministers, officers, choir members, office employees, etc. I hear that the demand is so high church members even set up their own garment factory to meet it.
Demographics is not an issue because the issue involves those parts of the world that make up the Global South.
Here's an example:
This sort of thing isn't common in the US. The only example that comes to mind, aside from the white ensembles that African American women wear for Protestant communion and possibly other rites, is the white suits of clothes that are worn at Latter-day Saints temples for ordinances. That is something different from the undergarments that they wear (akin to long underwear, though with shorter sleeves and pant legs, kind of like T-shirts and breeches). www.ldsdaily.com/personal-lds-blog/gospel-qa-what-exactly-are-the-requirements-for-white-temple-clothing/From a Catholic perspective, it seems kind of cultish.
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