What I don't understand is why the congregation went through the expense of building a brand new church within the last 4 years? Even though Gene Reynolds was only made Bishop last year, these problems have been manifest for the last 10 yrs. or so. I would have thought they'd hold out a little longer, if they could have, so see how things were going to shake out.
In 10-15 years, that church will probably be a mosque.
"What I don't understand is why the congregation went through the expense of building a brand new church within the last 4 years?"
We moved from a quiet location to a very prominent location on the "Loop" of the town so as to serve our mission: "to know Christ and make him known." We were hiding out light under a barrel (bushel?) in our little out-of-the way location.