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Originally Posted by Ohio
Not to be a party pooper here, but here's my take ...
A couple of the churches visited by that blogger were in Edmonton, Alberta, which is well nigh the North Pole in the dead of winter. In my LC, much further south I should add, I used to be the guy who would go to the meeting hall on Saturday afternoon just to crank up the heat, hoping to make it tolerable for the Lord's Day Meeting. Those old buildings never seemed to get warm. I probably needed a whole week to heat that place up in January.
Many times I went to the Meeting Hall hours early to pray on Sunday morning, then shovel snow with the brothers, and then we raced home to eat and get our families back to church on time, and somehow in the mix we forgot to leave the door unlocked. It would burn me up hearing other brothers whine when they arrived a little "inconvenienced."
Thank the Lord, however, for some warm food in a warm basement.
I liked this comment she made, "My conclusions on this church are simple. It was a good idea that kind of went sideways." I agree. Living Sideways Ministry it is.
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Since I'm from Southern California, we never really needed to have anyone arrive early to do anything. In fact, someone arriving on time to unlock the hall was usually sufficient. So maybe the criticism is a bit more applicable out here than in other areas of the country.