The time has come, faithful readers, to say farewell to an old friend -- Fourth Avenue Baptist Church. We all knew this day would inevitably come, but it still doesn't make it easy. Things have moved very fast since the late summer, when the Deacons decided that it just wasn't feasible to keep on meeting at Fourth Avenue with just 20 members each week. But the Lord has had His hand in this all along - He gave us a buyer for the church building, Louisville Church of Christ, and He gave us Walnut Street Baptist Church for our congregation to merge with, and everything has fallen into place.
I'm not going to say it's been easy - at times, taking care of selling the church has been a pain, but we've made it through. One week last month, I had to go to 5 different financial institutions in one week to close accounts and transfer funds back to our checking account. Mom and Dad have made countless trips downtown to the church to clean and clear out things. We did it because we love the old church.
Tomorrow, a "celebration" service will be held at there to commemorate the merger and the sale, but the 'rents and I won't be there. We're happy that Louisville Church of Christ will be getting a church home so they won't have to meet in an old school any longer, but we really think that closing our church is not much to celebrate. Today, we made one last trip downtown to clean the sanctuary for tomorrow's service and to clear out my office. I'm not going to lie and say it wasn't hard - I was weepy when I closed the office door and locked it one last time. And we all three were weepy when Dad locked the door and turned on the alarm one last time.
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