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  • 60 Minutes 2019. Healy, Alyssa; Nine Network staff (21 April 2019). "All by myself, The truth hurts, Mrs cricket". 60 Minutes. Season 2019. Nine Network. Retrieved 20 April 2019. Ross Bowden was also born into the religion, which has been operating for more than 100 years and has 10,000 members in Australia. The preachers, or workers, as they're called, travel in pairs. Giving up all their possessions, they take a vow of celibacy and, bizarrely, live and preach inside worshippers homes.

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  • John Long (1872–1962) traced his conversion experience to a mission held by Methodist evangelist Gabriel Clarke in 1890. He became a colporteur for the Methodists in Ireland, where he encountered William Irvine. He eventually joined Irvine's workers, until publicly expelled in 1907 for disagreeing with the group's exclusivist position (Robinson 2005, p. 36). Long returned to his work as a colporteur (Lennie 2009, p. 426) and joined the Elim evangelists for a time. From there he went on to become a noted Pentecostal preacher in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England (Robinson 2005, p. 36). The editor of Heresies Exposed included a correction by Long of the name of the church's original leader and the year of its founding in 1897 (Irvine 1929, p. 73(fn)). He also left his memoirs (in journal form, though redacted many years later) (Long 1927). Robinson, James (2005). Pentecostal Origins: Early Pentecostalism in Ireland in the Context of the British Isles. Studies in Evangelical History and Thought. Milton Keynes, United Kingdom: Paternoster. ISBN 978-1-84227-329-6. Lennie, Tom (2009). Glory in the Glen: A History of Evangelical Revivals in Scotland 1880–1940. Fearn, Ross–shire, Scotland: Christian Focus Publications. ISBN 978-1-84550-377-2. Robinson, James (2005). Pentecostal Origins: Early Pentecostalism in Ireland in the Context of the British Isles. Studies in Evangelical History and Thought. Milton Keynes, United Kingdom: Paternoster. ISBN 978-1-84227-329-6. Irvine, William C., ed. (1929). Heresies Exposed (Tenth ed.). Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers (reprint by Kessinger Publishing). Long, John (1927). "The Journal of John Long". Retrieved 3 August 2010 – via Telling The Truth.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
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  • "Ordinary meetings among lay believers are held in houses, but periodically the itinerants visit each district, and there they borrow a hall (often the Church hall of an unsuspecting minister) for a preaching meeting for the public at large." —Bryan R. Wilson (Wilson 1993). Wilson, Bryan R. (1993). "The Persistence of Sects". DISKUS. Archived from the original on 18 June 2006. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
  • Wilson 1993. Wilson, Bryan R. (1993). "The Persistence of Sects". DISKUS. Archived from the original on 18 June 2006. Retrieved 14 December 2009.

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  • The church does not publish any membership statistics; outside researchers give a wide range of estimates. In part, this depends on who is included as a member (children of members, unbaptized participants, lapsed members, etc) and whether the metric estimates are based upon known numbers of annual conventions, numbers of ministers, etc. One researcher has said that people on the fringes of church membership can be up to twenty times the number of regular members.(Hosfeld & 17 August 1983, pp. 1–2) During the 1980s, The Sydney Morning Herald gave an estimate of between 1 and 4 million members worldwide,(Gill & 30 June 1984, p. 37) while a 2001 estimate put Australian membership at 70,000.(Giles & 25 July 2001, p. 014) A sociology masters thesis from 1964 estimated U.S. membership at 300,000 to 500,000 and world membership as between 1 and 2 million.(Crow 1964, pp. 2, 16) Benton Johnson updated the metrics to arrive at a figure of 48,000 to 190,000 for the United States alone.(Johnson 1995, pp. 43–44) George Chryssides states that membership numbers are uncertain, giving an estimate for the United States during 1998 as ranging from 10,000 to 100,000 and a worldwide membership probably three times that figure.(Chryssides 2001b, pp. 330–331) The World Christian Encyclopedia shows the group in the United States growing from 100,000 in 1970 to 270,000 in 1990, while during the same period, Australian membership declined from 150,000 to 100,000.(Barrett, Kurian & Johnson 2001, pp. 85, 785) A 2022 source cited a worldwide decline of 38% in the number of ministers and up to a 40% decline in members since 1980.(Kropp-Ehrig 2022, p. 497) Figures from other sources fall within this same wide range. Hosfeld, Kathleen (17 August 1983). "Criticism clouds church's gathering". Skagit Valley Herald. Mount Vernon, Washington. Gill, Alan (30 June 1984). "The Most Secret Society in the World". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, Australia. Giles, Tanya (25 July 2001). "Secretive Sect Leader Dies". Herald Sun. Melbourne, Australia. Crow, Keith W. (March 1964). The Invisible Church (Thesis). Eugene, Oregon: Department of Sociology, University of Oregon. Johnson, Benton (1995). "Christians in Hiding: The 'No Name' Sect". In Bromley, David G.; Neitz, Mary Jo; Goldman, Marion S. (eds.). Sex, Lies and Sanctity: Religion and Deviance in Contemporary North America. Vol. 5. Greenwich, Connecticut: JAI Press. ISBN 978-1-55938-904-4. Chryssides, George D. (2001b). "Two by Twos". Historical Dictionary of New Religious Movements. Lanham, Maryland and London: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-4095-9. Kropp-Ehrig, Cherie (2022). Preserving the Truth: The Church without a Name and Its Founder, William Irvine. Dallas, Texas: Clarion Call Publishing. ISBN 979-8-985-62501-1.

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