[AnAmericanMother]

30 members is barely enough to support a home church.

They wouldn't even be able to pay to have the lawn mowed at the old church building, let alone the utilities.

And it's just a little tiny 19th c. wooden Carpenter's Gothic structure . . . but those buildings tend to have serious (and expensive) maintenance issues. My parents' little church, St. Andrew's Darien, is almost a carbon copy, and you wouldn't BELIEVE the expense they've had to go to to keep the building up, small as it is.

[Kahonek]

"They wouldn't even be able to pay to have the lawn mowed..."

Why would a church of 30 pay to have the lawn mowed? In my church, volunteers keep the place clean, mow the lawn, and pitch in to handle any maintenance that needs done (including roofing, plumbing, etc.). Thirty is more than enough to handle the job.