Thursday, September 16, 2010

Honoring the legacy of our building and investments

We are coming to the fourth and last in the series of conversations that Communications and Evangelism is sponsoring about the ideas that are bubbling forth in this time of transition. 

Some of the ideas were about the central feature of our common life, worship.  Some of the ideas were about the identity we portray to the larger church and community, identity.  Some were about the connections we have with other churches and social welfare institutions, collaboration.  And now we come to ideas for using the resources we have been given by our forebears at Pilgrim. 

We have decided that we are not moving in the foreseeable future but we have more building that we can use or afford to maintain.  At the same time, we must be good stewards of this resource and keep it up so others will be attracted to join us.  We have a large endowment we could tap into if we all agreed what we intended to do with it.  But if we spend it it will no longer earn income for us.

Plan to stay after worship this Sunday, September 19 for a conversation in the library.  We will not be serving lunch but if you tuck a loaf and few fish in your tunic we should have more than enough to share.

Peace

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