Attendance Drops for Promise Keepers
Promise Keepers, the Christian revival movement for men, has reported a steep drop in attendance for its 1998 rallies, compared with the previous three years.
The organization, based in Denver, estimates that 454,000 men attended 19 events at U.S. stadiums and arenas in the 12 months ended Oct. 10. For the same period a year ago, it listed 638,000 at 19 conferences, excluding the hundreds of thousands who attended a prayer meeting on the Washington Mall last October.
In 1996, the group posted a record cumulative attendance of just under 1.1 million at 22 events; in 1995, 738,000 attended 13 events.
Promise Keepers staged its first rally in 1991. The 1998 season was the first in which there was no attendance fee.
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