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Date Posted: 11:54:31 06/30/12 Sat
Author: George
Subject: Re: Feeding on the dead carcass
In reply to: Lois 's message, "Re: Feeding on the dead carcass" on 10:52:39 06/30/12 Sat

>>This is from the Greater Pacific Northwest Mission
>>Center, in which my old stomping grounds were once
>>upon a time.
>>
>>Budgets are where one can see the demise of the
>>institution. From 2011 to 2012 there has been a loss
>>of five congregations out of an original 41. 12% loss.
>>(Not in members, but in number of congregations.)
>>
>>Some of the congregations are �blended�. What that
>>means is, there aren�t enough people to sustain a
>>separate congregation, go drive to the next closest.
>>
>>I bet if I looked at the other mission center budgets
>>I would see the same pattern.
>>
>> >>href="http://www.cofchrist-gpnw.org/documents/conf/201
>1
>>_Saturday_Packet.pdf">http://www.cofchrist-gpnw.org/do
>c
>>uments/conf/2011_Saturday_Packet.pdf
>>
>>Proposed 2012 Congregational Allocations
>>Page 29
>
> >href="http://www.cofchrist.org/directory/missionctrs.as
>p#g">http://www.cofchrist.org/directory/missionctrs.asp
>#g
>
>Lists 38 congregations for Greater Pacific Northwest.
>3 are characterized as "emerging" or "expansion".
>Don't know what that means, unless they found a pocket
>of homosexuals.
>
>Lois

Lois, Stephen King once published a short story about a small time drug trafficker who crashed his plane on a stony desert island. He was unable to trap any seabirds for food, so eventually be began cutting off parts of his extremities, cooking them, and eating them. It became a race to see which of three things would happen: He would be rescued, starve to death, or die of shock from the self-mutilation. Of course, like most traditional horror stories, the main character found himself in this predicament because his lifestyle caused him to fly without filed flight plans over lonely areas, in order to avoid the authorities. Unlike the modern slasher/splatter epics, the traditional horror story is usually a morality tale -- the protagonists invite evil into their lives, believing their own spin that it isn't really all that bad, and they have complete control of everything that is going to happen.

George

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