'Back to Church' Sunday

‘TELL ME WHY’, APPEALS BISHOP
A bid to discover why people have stopped going to church – and what might draw them back – has been launched by the Bishop of Oxford The Rt Revd John Pritchard is asking residents across Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire to visit his website, or write to him, to let him know why they might be ‘avoiding’ church. ‘We know people fall out of the habit of coming to church for all sorts of reasons,’ Bishop John said. ‘I’d like to try and understand and to say they are always welcome.’ His ‘Tell Bishop John’ campaign ties in with Back to Church Sunday on 30 September.
Source: BBC (4/9)

I think a lot of people simply slide out of the habit after an invitation to do something else one Sunday, not meaning to give up church-going but finding that they had got caught up in doing something else instead. Also a number of people now work on Sundays - and, let's face it, if you have a large mortgage to pay, the extra pay that is generated by worked on Sundays is very welcome and often the Sunday jobs are quieter and less stressful than normal.