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selling church building

‘How do we want to live?’

Posted June 19th, 2019

Heritage Presbyterian Church in Muskego, Wisconsin, has a resurrection story to tell. At the beginning it might sound familiar to many Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) congregations. The membership was graying and in decline. Of the 100 members on the rolls, only 30 to 40 came to worship.

Congregation thrives — without a building

Posted July 26th, 2017

After 170 years on Mount Hope Avenue in Rochester, New York, South Presbyterian Church voted to sell its historic building on Easter Sunday 2014, a day chosen by the congregation for its symbolism of resurrection.