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(UMNS) Church mergers take time, energy, work
When two congregations with declining membership and attendance merge, the resulting church must make changes, says a member of the rebirth team for a merged church in Winona, Minn.
Corwin Osterloh believes the two churches have much more work to do.
“Two congregations with declining membership are still going down the same path,” said Osterloh, a member of Central United Methodist Church, which merged in July 2010 with McKinley United Methodist Church.
“We really started talking about the fact that what we were doing wasn’t working.”
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