[sionnsar]

I don't think there's anything wrong with starting in a shopping mall or a garage, but you shouldn't want to stay there. Applause for the priest whose church is already drawing up plans for an appropriate but modest chapel.

Agreed. I've been a member of two churches (one PECUSA, one APCK) who started from nothing and eventually put up their buildings. It's not easy, but there is little to match the day you burn the mortgage and consecrate the building (as we did last year).

[AnAmericanMother]

Fellow in our carpool is the youth minister for an evangelical Anglican church in town, they seem to be under the jurisdiction of the bishop of Bolivia. They've been in rented space for awhile, but with great joy they are planning for a "real" church building a few miles north of their current location.