A look at who came to church each week from January to May 2026, Sundays and Tuesdays. Built from the ushers' headcount sheet and the first timers register, so every number here comes from a real record.
View summary →Sundays started the year quieter in January and settled into fuller crowds by May, climbing across all 21 weeks. The main service is clearly healthy.
Fewer people than Sunday, but a clear upward drift over the 19 weeks. The midweek meeting is quietly building.
New people signed in across the months, 613 of them on a Sunday. Fresh faces keep arriving, week after week.
3 of these unusually full weeks line up with a special service or a wave of new people. The rest, the records simply don't explain.
Each bar is one Sunday, counting everyone across all three services that day. The green circle on a bar is how many first timers signed in that week. Use the buttons to focus on a month or pull out the busiest and quietest weeks.
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Sundays drew about 1,364 people on average, starting quieter in January and settling into fuller crowds by May, +27.5% higher overall. Along the way, 613 new people signed in.
Most Sundays run three services: first, second and evening. This shows the make-up of each Sunday, and whether each service grew over the months. (A few Sundays were combined into one service.)
How did each service do across the five months? Step through them below.
This service sits in the middle for size, bringing in about 31% of a typical Sunday crowd. On a normal Sunday it draws about 421 people. Over the five months it grew about +24%, a clear rise from the start of the year. It is one of the main drivers of Sunday's growth. Its fullest day was May 24 with 503 people, and its quietest was Jan 11 with 304.
This is the busiest service on a Sunday. It alone brings in roughly 57% of everyone who comes that day. On a normal Sunday it draws about 784 people. Already the biggest service, it edged up only a little over the months, about +3%. Most of Sunday's growth is coming from the first and evening services, which had more room to fill. Its fullest day was Mar 15 with 998 people, and its quietest was Jan 11 with 652.
This is the quietest of the three regular services. It brings in about 21% of a typical Sunday crowd. On a normal Sunday it draws about 293 people. Over the five months it grew about +25%, a clear rise from the start of the year. It is one of the main drivers of Sunday's growth. Its fullest day was Mar 8 with 325 people, and its quietest was Jan 11 with 206.
On the 5 Sundays the church met as one combined service, this was the single biggest gathering of the day. On those days it drew about 934 people on average. The combined days late in the window were fuller than the early ones, up about +6%. Its fullest day was Apr 5, when 1,013 people came.
Average crowd on each Sunday of the month, lined up across all five months.
There is a clear rhythm to the month: quiet at the start, fullest in the middle.
The first Sunday is the smallest crowd, usually the combined communion service.
The third Sunday is the biggest, when baby dedications and thanksgivings bring families out.
Set the third Sundays aside and the regular weeks still climbed. People keep showing up with no big occasion needed.
Third Sundays can even beat a combined service day. The fullest Sunday all window, 1,729 on 15 March, was a third Sunday with three baby dedications.
Tuesday Bible study is one evening service, so the numbers are naturally smaller than Sunday and are best read on their own. Same idea: each bar is a week, the green circle is first timers, and the buttons let you focus.
No weeks match that view.
Tuesday Bible study drew about 424 people on a normal week and grew +10.3% over the five months. The midweek meeting is quietly building.
4 weeks drew noticeably more people than usual, and 3 of them have a clear reason. Scroll through them below.
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Nothing in the records explains this one.
Put the two days together and the answer is a clear yes. Both Sunday and Tuesday drew bigger crowds by May than in January, and new faces kept arriving the whole time.
Yes. Both Sunday and Tuesday drew bigger crowds by May than in January, and 771 new people came through the doors. Real growth, helped by a widening reach.
A typical Sunday started the year around 1,166 and settled near 1,420.
The midweek Bible study built steadily too, averaging about 424 each week.
New people kept arriving every month, with the most in May.
Steady, real growth on both service days, with reach climbing right alongside it.
In short: the church grew over these five months, on both service days, and more new people are finding their way in. This is the first report of its kind for Helpline, and as we keep recording the numbers, each one will give a clearer view of where the church is headed and where leadership can lean in.