Thread by @umjeremy

I think this article misses the mark: it isn’t about sensationalistic age discrimination.

1. It’s a church restart. We do a number of these in the northwest. The church closes, then a new church start begins in the old building. So the church is wholly new...

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https://twitter.com/PioneerPress/status/1219246775745372162

1. (cont’d) It sounds like the AC hasn’t done the work to get the closing congregation on board with the mission, but the process is not in error. We’ve seen it work before. The AC had better take some deep learnings as to why the situation dissolved to this article.

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2. Intergenerational ministry is necessary and valuable. This site would fail without it, and obviously this was not communicated well. Now, does the previous congregation own the building and the leadership? No. It’s not the old church. It’s a new church.

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2. (cont’d) So long as the members of the old church are on board with that shift in ownership, I suspect they will be included going forward. But that is why most new church starts have several months/a year between as old members find new churches to attend.

Sigh.

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