Adventist Church growing, but immense challenges remain: "Member loss rate is quite high—39 percent or 2 out of each 5 new members. 'Let me remind you that members do not usually leave because of theological differences but because they go through a crisis in life. . . 'They might feel unmissed, uncared for, unimportant, and after a few years, they just slip through the cracks,'” says David Trim.