In one version of a series of events, Russ Ewell of San Francisco, err – Bay Area Church sent Kip to Portland. I’m certain that Kip would have been hired somewhere eventually, but not in 2003.

Now, there is an International Christian Church in San Francisco.

This is a ‘thank you’, I guess for all the help in getting a job when no one wanted to acknowledge that he existed.

There is something that I am noticing about these new churches, though. As best I can tell, none of them are larger than 15 – 20 folks. They are meeting in homes and loathe to mention their numbers. It seems that these new churches are basically made up of a Bible Talk or Family Group that wants things back the way they were.

Remember the group in Stockholm? Maybe ten people, if that. Hilo? 12 -15. Honolulu? Less than that. LA? Not the 10,000 of yore (though it was later found that the Rose Bowl service actually had closer to 8900 in attendance). LA is Ron Harding and a couple Bible Talks. The only exception seems to be Kiev, Ukraine, but there’s no telling which source is correct in estimating their membership. (For the record, ICC says about 200, ICoC says about 20. Guess which acronym is which.)

The Bay Area Church, by the way, is the largest non-signer of the UP. They went to the ILC in Va Beach, but they are still the largest non-signer. I wonder if anyone is going to visit them to share perspective (based on my experiences with Russ, I doubt it).

Don’t know why I mention all this except to say that I was in the middle of writing about my past and its connections to Halloween, sorta. I think I needed a break from the heebie-jeebies.