"“Our worship planning committee concluded that this was a service whose population would be likely to come,” Fr. Boyd said."
I'm almost afraid to ask this, S. What's worship planning committee?
I've never heard the term before, K, so I can only guess. There might be two things for such a committee to address: How many services and when (most likely for Christmas and Easter)? And the "production" of various aspects of the services: soloist or group performances, for example. Or, if one is a particular NY church, clown masses.
It does sound horrid.