Posted by Goose on April 26, 2009 at 19:09:09 from (67.63.68.13):
In Reply to: OT: church closing. posted by doug in illinois on April 26, 2009 at 17:18:31:
My great-grandfather was a founder and charter member of the Lutheran church I grew up in out in the country.
By 1964 membership and finances had fallen off to where one pastor was serving our congregation and a similar one some 20 miles away. The two churches mergered and built a new church in town half way between. The new church, of which I was a charter member, has been growing ever since. My wife and I were the first wedding in the new church. We didn't plan it that way, it just happened. We've since transferred elsewhere.
The sad part is, the country church I grew up in, and which has so much of my family's history, is now sitting vacant and deteriorating. The property was purchased privately to continue using the parsonage as a residence, but the church building itself is just rotting down. It's heartbreaking to see. I think there should be a law or an agreement that when a church building is obviously never going to be used as a church again that the building be razed.
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