Since then the new membership has been unable to form a majority to elect a president.
On new membership Sunday last month, everyone at the front of the church was dressed in white.
As of 2011, there is a 14 year waiting list for new memberships.
In 1986, the Board was increased to 13 members, due to new membership increases averaging out at about 150 per year.
Also, it is thought that new, younger membership helped push the organization in this direction.
The religious group increasingly providing new membership is the evangelicals.
As a result, the new membership saw the party shift much more towards the right on fiscal policy.
We cannot offer new memberships here either in the short term; that is not possible.
The group has to continue working and if it is to have a new membership, perhaps this can be done at the same time.
But then Parliament should also be involved in the appointment of its new membership.