Wow August 21, 2005
Posted by Aaron in : News , trackbackSo its a week late, but I will finally post the news I keep meaning to post. The church I go to has been discussing buying the old building of another church thats moving in town. Last sunday was the vote after months of discussing and researching. I managed to transfer my membership just in time to be allowed to vote as a member even though they’d decided that the non-member votes would count just as much. (In the free methodist church, such things are officially only decided by the votes of members, but they’d decided for such a big decision they wanted more input) I’d guess all told there were some 40-50 people voting, many of whom had had some reservations about the move, some quite serious. I personally at first wasn’t sure, but after enough discussing all the concerns and benifits, I decided I was for it. Despite having so many initially opposed the final vote was unanimous, which is pretty amazing for a group that size. So assuming we can come up with $10,000 by november either via giving, grants or sale of our current property, we’ll be jumping about a mile north-east in town.
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cool. We are waiting to see if our bid for the Vineyard church will pass. it was a really low bid but when the people are faithful and God is in it, it all works.
Let’s make a list: Aaron has lived in Greenville for beyond a couple years (I include schooling here); he has worked in town, and, that not for the school; he has patronized a certain restaurant; other things should probably go on this list. Conclusions: it’s about time that he make himself officially a townie and help the church out at the same time… by purchasing one of the church’s houses (assuming they’re selling the houses).