DEATH OF A CHURCH
“Rural depopulation has dropped the attendance to about 14 on any given Sunday. While this church once represented a large farming community, those family farms have diminished and the families themselves have disappeared. Kids, including me, went off to college and started lives elsewhere. Church elders have passed on.”
http://www.flyoverpeople.net/news/2013/06/04/death-of-a-church/comment-page-1/#comment-86088
How very, very heartbreaking. How Kansas is changing. Right before our eyes.
When a church is razed, what happens to our history? What happens to our lives?
The same with the First Baptist Church on Constitution Street in Emporia ruled by the great officials of the City of Emporia to be razed and turned into a Parking Lot.
Kenyon Hall was saved. Lowther and EHS was saved. The Granada was saved. Why is it a constant Battle to save the Past?
Why can’t historic renovation be an integral part of saving our disappearing Midwestern heritage and history?
Especially now, as Kansas and Emporia the great Athens of the Midwest shrinks as the New Depression looms over us?
What happens to God when a Church is razed?
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