A Very Sad Weekend; Two More Churches Leaving and New Videos From Anglicans

The two following items in the blog today tell about two additional churches which have decided to walk on thier own: a church in Montgomery, Alabama and a church in Atlanta, Georgia. In the Atlanta situation, members of the church decided to split from the Diocese on account of the 'usual' complaints of late.

In the Montgomery, Alabama situation, _most_ of the members of the church elected to quit going there, causing a drop in attendance to just _ten_ people at their final service on January 28. With only ten active members (the others had left with their pastor (again, the 'usual' situation) some time previously. The remaining ten people said they could no longer pay the utility bills nor the insurance required to have the building remain open. The local bishop said he hopes to re-open the church and restart services at some future time. Please read all the blog items for February 10 and earlier.

This sort of thing scares me greatly about our own Diocese and Parish; I am afraid of something like this happening here.

Finally for today, we have another video in our weekly series during January and February from the Anglican Communion Network, on the theme 'Choose This Day'. This latest video deals with the 'Non-Negotiables of Our Faith'. You can watch this latest video offering HERE

Do you rememeber the Bible story about King Solomon and the two ladies who brought before him the little baby; each woman claimed it was her own child; the king, in his wisdom said the solution I think best is to cut the baby in half; each woman will get half a child. The one woman thought that fair; the other woman (whose child it really was) realized the action would kill the baby entirely; so she told the king she would just give up the child entirely to the other woman. "Let her have the child so it will live ..." . This is truly becoming a very dreadful situation for all of us.

PAT