The Church

Melvin and Nancy own an old church up the road from their house- and what will be our house. It's a very cool old church built in the mid 1800's (I think around there anyways) and has been home to several demoninations over the years. It needs some TLC, but before a lot of time (and cash) is spent to renovate it, we need to decide what to do with it. No one really has any great ideas... so if you do have one, please share them!

I meant to get pictures of the inside (it still has the original benches and pipe organ)...but I was distracted... I'll get to that in a second... but first... some outside shots of the church.

And now, as Paul Harvey would say, for the rest of the story.

Recently, there has been some vandelism at our lovely old church. Several windows have been broken by someone who thought it would be fun to throw rocks through some of the windows. Since these were old windows- you know the kind with the wavy glass- AND a stained glass window -the windows are irrereplaceable.

Vandelism Exhibit A

Vandelism Exhibit B (this is the one that really irked me)

Last weekend, I saw a kid, he was probably 13 or so, walking up the gravel road with a BB gun just beyond the property line from the church. I slowed down, and when he saw me slow down, he ducked into the woods that borders the property. This was suspicious for several reasons...the least of which was why he had a BB gun.

Well, today, I walked over to the church to take some pictures for the blog. As I rounded the side of the church to get my side shot, I heard a rustle of leaves- and saw that same kid, BB gun in hand. About that time, he saw me and took off running. And after him I went... yelling at him to stop. I'm sure he thought he was being chased by a 12 year old...but I made sure he thought it was a mean 12 year old yelling at him. Unfortunately, I'm not as quick as I used to be and he ran off before I could catch him. Lucky kid too...because by running, in my mind he is admitting guilt, and I was MAD. And now I've seen him twice.

So...if the kid who has broken windows at our church is reading this... SHAME ON YOU. And you better hope one of us doesn't catch you, because believe me, I am the nice one.

For all of my friends and family who read this... if you have some wonderful idea on how we can use the church, please feel free to comment and share!! We welcome your suggestions!