Leaving Home, Part II
By Matt Kennedy, Stand Firm
We give you Part II of our on going series "Leaving Home". This installment describes our first Sunday in a new location and for ease of writing (and reading) we have written each from our own perspective. Each section is creatively called 'from Matt' and 'from Anne'.
From Matt
That first Sunday away from Old Good Shepherd, as it has come to be known, was bitingly cold and it had snowed six inches overnight. I'd read the weather reports the night before and prayed fretfully for God to work some kind of miracle. The last thing we needed our first Sunday out was momentum killing weather. On regular Sundays six inches would mean a small dip in attendance, especially for the earlier service. I had no idea what it would mean for our first Sunday in a gym.
The Conklin Avenue Baptist Church gym is exactly half a mile away from the rectory of St. Andrew's. Pastor Hollinger had given us keys the day before and a few men and I had spent part of Saturday night setting up about 60 chairs–always better to add than subtract seating I think–and tables for food. The altar guild ladies had transformed an old folding table into an altar and done their best to make it beautiful. They didn't have much to work with. Our fine altar linens, silver chalices and patens, candles, vestments were left behind. We were left with one bluish clay chalice and paten, an older green vestment, some cloth that one of the altar guild ladies brought, and some candles Anne and I bought in Israel.
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