Posted on 12/17/2014 5:25:11 PM PST by Oliviaforever
ALEXANDRIA -- The First United Methodist Church in Alexandria, which lost some members about a year ago after a dispute involving its gay choir director, will close its doors for good at the end of 2014.
David Mantor, pastor of the church, said the decision to close the church resulted from falling attendance, membership and financing problems. Mantor said statistics he's seen from United Methodist Church headquarters show a "downward spiral" of membership and donations across the whole UM church for the past 30 years.
"This is a problem that's going on everywhere," Mantor said. "And that's why we're closing."
(Excerpt) Read more at heraldbulletin.com ...
Alexandria VA?
definitely agree with that.
Egypt
From the article:
The Alexandria church belongs to the UMC’s North Central District of Indiana.
Alexandria, Indiana. Note the 1901 architecture of the church, typical of the turn of the 19th Century Midwest. small town of 5,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria,_Indiana
It is near Anderson, Indiana & east of Indianapolis
The UMC hecame nothing more than a liberal Sunday club.
Won't some other UMC or some other Protestant denomination pick it up? I hope so.
That is the author of the story argle-bargling vigorously against what the guy who was actually there said.
"No, no, no, it isn't the gay takedown and takeover that did it! It wasn't the traduction and seduction of the Church by a catamites' cabal! Wasn't, wasn't, wasn't, so there!!" </off foot-stamping>
The town had 2,100 more people in 1900 than it does now. That’s more than a 20% decline in population. I didn’t realize Indiana had a period of population loss. That happened here during the Civil War and on into Reconstruction, and to a much lesser extent during the depths of the Great Depression, but by the late fifties the population was booming.
I was United Methodist until this past summer. I left because an ordained pastor stood up during Annual Conference and said that “no one knows when life begins, but we have women right next to us who need our support in their choice to end an unwanted pregnancy”.
And he was applauded. As soon as I got home from AC, I resigned from the denomination.
How soon before the building becomes a mosque?
Actually, that sounds like the spin the current minister is giving. The story says they lost 80% of the congregation when he was fired. Any business that loses 80% of their customers won’t be around long.
UMC is a dying denomination.
Did they lose 80% of their congregation after the pastor was fired or was the pastor fired after they lost 80% of their congregation?
Alexandria, Indiana.
Our married arrogant bully of a choir director had an affair with the married organist at my Methodist hellhole before I fled back to the Catholic Church I was raised in. Then the minister was stealing out of peoples’ purses to finance his drug purchases, showing up sweating bullets or one Sunday he was bright red..............it was a circus
You have mail. :D
“David Mantor, pastor of the church, said the decision to close the church resulted from falling attendance, membership and financing problems”
When you are no longer the House of God, the pious go somewhere else
The UMC has been in a death spiral since the mid 60’s. Marxists took over the Council of Bishops by the late 80’s. This once vital Christian evangelical movement has become the handmaid of satan, complete with witches and covens.
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