Starting small and likely to stay that way

I wonder if 30 people got up yesterday and said, “Hey, I think I’ll commit de facto schism over at the Elks’ Lodge.” A sympathetic article has this:

[The Rev. Ronald] Ingalls’ wife, Sheila, said she didn’t want the service to be too conventional.
“I wanted it to be special,” said Sheila Ingalls, manager of online banking at Middlesex Savings Bank in Natick.
A boom box, taking the organist’s place, played tapes with songs for everyone to sing including, “Come As You Are,” which expressed the sentiment of the congregation.