Posted on 07/16/2017 2:00:21 PM PDT by DFG
Over two decades, one prospective buyer after another passed over the abandoned village in the Connecticut countryside. There were requirements to preserve its historical character and problems with the septic system, not to mention rumors that it was haunted.
So when a Filipino church came forward and bought the deteriorating collection of Victorian-style buildings last week, local officials were elated the village would be saved from rotting away. An official with the church, Iglesia Ni Cristo, says it is not daunted because it has a history of repurposing shuttered buildings for its fast-growing membership.
"We purchase a lot of abandoned worship buildings and restore them," said Joji Crisostomo, a district minister who oversees 32 congregations and missions for the church in the northeastern U.S. "That way people can use them again to reconnect with God."
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Will there be Lumpia and Pancit after services?
Here in Long Island, many historic church buildings are being taken over by Asian churches. Mostly Chinese and Korean.
Ahhh lumpia.
Why is there no lumpia in America?
I could make a meal on the lumpia from the Public Works Center at Subic Bay.
This group is a cult. They even have their own private army in the Philippines
Better than them being turned into islamic mosques.
My Kind of Church!
Well Armed!
Better folks than breathing Democrats...
We have it in Navy towns!
So good!
Viet Spring Rolls
Lumpia, a few Coca-Colas and a couple of bucks spent at the go-kart track at Subic on Friday & Saturday nights kept me out of trouble whenever we pulled in for training in the Zambales. That plus the one night out of six I spent as the USMC officer accompanying the Shore Patrol in Olongapo.
(PT Barnum would have loved that place! And Jungle Jim, too - I never could decide whether it was a Circus or a Zoo!)
Mainstream Christianity certainly isn't stepping up to do the job. Pope Frank and his attempts to hold hands and sing "Kumbaya" seems to echo most of them.
Will there be Lumpia and Pancit after services?...If so, I’d even enter CT.
Me too! we would order it by the tub in San Diego.
I love Vietnamese restaurants. Took my 80 year old mother to her first one that just opened in her rust belt town two weeks ago. Had Pho and Vietnamese spring rolls. She loved it. I told her to bring all her friends to lunch there.
They’re great people, the Vietnamese women are absolutely gorgeous, and pho with rice noodles is the best soup you’ll ever have. Got her a banh mih sandwich for at home.
Her opinion (being a Midwest woman who doesn’t mince her words)? Walter Cronkite was an assh*le, wasn’t he? Yes Mom, he was.
Yes Mom, Yes he was.
I made the mistake of ordering Pho Tai Nam And a Bahn Mi once,
They had to roll me out *burp*
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