A Westerville congregation that lost about two-thirds of its members in 2007 after a rift within the Episcopal Church is selling its building and worshipping in a temporary space as it tries to redefine itself as “a church without walls,” its presiding priest said this week.
A “For Sale” is posted in front of the 23,995-square-foot St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church at 233 S. State St., where congregants held their final service on July 7. Their first service in borrowed space at a respite-care center drew about 100 people the following week, said the Rev. Joseph Kovitch, who oversees the congregation.
Sounds to me like the Presiding Bishop should step in and prevent the sale, seeing as this land is being held for all future Episcopalians in perpetuity. 😉
Has anyone have any evidence of a parish selling a building and becoming a “church without walls” and surviving more than a year or two. When the parish in Garden City, MI sold their building they went to meeting in coffee shops to homes, to a neighboring ECUSA parish on Saturday night, to non-existance in a relatively short time.