I grew up in a couple of church buildings that were financed on the “build as we get it” plan.
That may be why I have always been attracted to the unadorned walls of Quaker meeting houses. I wonder if a resident of Reims in the thirteenth century would have felt the same?
Well, I am back to my roots. As you know, our church palapa burned down last year. We have been meeting in a closed-for-the-summer restaurant. But it is no longer summer and the restaurant needs to deal with meals for the stomach. As a result, our soul meals on wheels needs to trundle off to a new location.
And a new location we have. Over the past few months, our new location has been transformed from a weedy lot to a bare lot to a construction site to an almost completed palapa.
That may be why I have always been attracted to the unadorned walls of Quaker meeting houses. I wonder if a resident of Reims in the thirteenth century would have felt the same?
Well, I am back to my roots. As you know, our church palapa burned down last year. We have been meeting in a closed-for-the-summer restaurant. But it is no longer summer and the restaurant needs to deal with meals for the stomach. As a result, our soul meals on wheels needs to trundle off to a new location.
And a new location we have. Over the past few months, our new location has been transformed from a weedy lot to a bare lot to a construction site to an almost completed palapa.
By this Sunday, it will be complete enough for the congregation to move in. Not completed. A work in progress.
But what better symbol for the Christian experience? Because none of us are complete. As for me, I fit in the half-baked category.
On Saturday, we will meet as a work party to move chairs, books, and other service paraphernalia to the new site.
As you can see, the floor will be a bit primitive. But not quite the circus tent primitive in the photographs. A soil compacter is on its way to form a nice bed for an icing layer of gravel. And soon, we will have a beautiful brick floor to complement our thatched roof.
So, if you would like to join us on Sunday at 10:30 AM, stop on by. You will be welcome.
And, as far as I am concerned worshiping here will be every bit as real as worshiping inside the stone edifice of Reims.
But what better symbol for the Christian experience? Because none of us are complete. As for me, I fit in the half-baked category.
On Saturday, we will meet as a work party to move chairs, books, and other service paraphernalia to the new site.
As you can see, the floor will be a bit primitive. But not quite the circus tent primitive in the photographs. A soil compacter is on its way to form a nice bed for an icing layer of gravel. And soon, we will have a beautiful brick floor to complement our thatched roof.
So, if you would like to join us on Sunday at 10:30 AM, stop on by. You will be welcome.
And, as far as I am concerned worshiping here will be every bit as real as worshiping inside the stone edifice of Reims.
