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Good Morning Gail...
Oh I’m sorry about the broken pipe in your church! Glad it is okay for now. Are you building a new church or joining up with another? Just wondering why the “ close down”?

Have a great day...
Polly

We are in a declining neighborhood, with a declining membership due to our senior citizens passing on, we have no youth, average age is 55 and over at our church, it use to have 300 members now it's lucky to have 65 active members. We will merge with another Methodist church (voting is going on now) but that only affects the finances, we will be free to choose any church of our choice. Easter Sunday is suppose to be the last day of service.

The only churches growing are the ones catering to the young, which leaves us old timers feeling left out. When I was widowed in '04 I tried several different churches (as I couldn't go back to my old one because of the memories), and they are all going to to loud music, to modern music and forgetting that the older folks are even there. What's wrong with blending both kinds of music into a service? I like some of the comtemporary music, but prefer old time gospel...I just don't want a steady diet of comtemporary music it doesn't have the same feeling as the older stuff like I'll Fly Away, Sweet By and By or Amazing Grace. Most of the older music just needs to be uptempoed to make it sound better, I know that for a fact as my late husband was a great keyboardist who did just that.

I came out of the Assembly of God a free flowing Holy Ghost filled church into the Methodist when I remarried, and the Methodist are very formalized and tame in there services. :(