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Small church takes huge risk, goes buildingless

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Presbyterian News Service: Small church takes huge risk, goes buildingless

Congregation moves to retirement home, invests proceeds in mission.

LOUISVILLE — Just call it the little church that could.  And did.

Faced with declining membership, dwindling revenues, and an aging, non-handicapped accessible building, the Buechel Presbyterian Church here joyfully embraced what it saw as its only viable option for survival. 

Rather than close its doors to future generations, the congregation voted in August 2006 to sell its building and make its new home across the street at Westminster Terrace, a neighboring independent living home.

The congregation held its first service at the retirement facility in late September 2006, the same time that the church building was put up for sale. …

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3 responses to “Small church takes huge risk, goes buildingless”

  1. tribalchurch Avatar
    tribalchurch

    Good for them. It will be interesting to see what happens in the coming decade. There are so many churches that hold onto their buldings until they become millstones around their necks. It’s nice to see one that didn’t.

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  2. Michael W. Kruse Avatar
    Michael W. Kruse

    I did some consulting work with a church a couple years that was once a large downtown congregation. They could no longer support the physical plant. At first they were just going to dissolve but after working through issues the decided to sell the building, meet elsewhere for a while and redeploy at a later date in a more managable locale. I like hearing stories like this.

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