I recently got two bits of news from home that I am only beginning to process:
1) My great aunt Bertha (yes I actually have an aunt Bertha, she is my maternal grandfather's sister) is getting up there in years. Her mind is failing. The last time my parents went to visit her, they told her that I was in seminary. Now she wants me to "do" her funeral service. **sigh** I don't even to know where to start on that.
2) At my home congregation's annual meeting, they decided to look into ways to distribute the assets of the congregation. This supposedly has a twofold purpose. One purpose is to "wake up the congregation, to show them we are serious." The plan is that this news will be so shocking to people who have stopped supporting the church, or stopped coming all together, will suddenly decide that they need to recommit themselves to the church. Call me a skeptic, but I don't buy it. The other reason is really practical, if we decide to close the church, we have to find a way to distribute the assets.
It is sad really, to talk about closing the church that I grew up in. An institution which, for the longest time I assumed would be around forever, could actually close, and soon. I was really hoping to see that church turn things around. I just don't know if that is going to happen. **tear**
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I hear you Dave, I hear you. The First Baptist Church of Hightstown will be closing soon, after 250 years. It is just dying, and I don't think anything can revive it. Quite sad. But things Happen, and God must have a purpose for all things.
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