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COR Goes Downtown

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Tonight was the inaugural service for the Church of the Resurrection (Methodist megachurch in Leawood, Ks) at their downtown Kansas City, Mo, location, Rez Downtown. They were expecting fifty people, and I would guess they had at least 250.

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The service was held in the Scarritt Building, catty-corner from the Grand Avenue Temple (Methodist), where the church will take up permanent residence in November with weekly services. (They are meeting once a month until November.) Grand Avenue Temple has been downtown at this location since 1866, but it has desperately needed revitalization for many years. The church and twelve-story buildings were built as units in 1912.

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Melissa and I had a great experience. If you live downtown (or even if you don't), you should give it a try. Hats off to COR.

 

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3 responses to “COR Goes Downtown”

  1. Chad Herring Avatar
    Chad Herring

    I find the multi-campus phenomenon for mainline churches like COR (and others, such as in our own Presbytery) fascinating.
    I’m not against them, although there is a conflict there with my conviction that we are doing a poor job with new church development, and a correlate wish that churches that had abundant people and financial resources would direct some energy toward seeding new churches, rather than new campuses of the same church.

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  2. Michael W. Kruse Avatar
    Michael W. Kruse

    I hear ya. I’m not sure what I think either.

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  3. lifelongmethodist Avatar
    lifelongmethodist

    I think if you looked into it you would find that Resurrection does both. It has given hundreds of thousands of dollars toward new church starts and church revitilization efforts. They do both and, not either or.

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