Reform #17 — Resourceful in Our Facilities Use
Making Creative Use of Public & Private Meeting Places
“So continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, they ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved. Now Peter and John went up together to the temple at the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.” Acts 2:46-3:1
And daily in the temple, and in every house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ. Acts 5:42
“But when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.” Acts 19:9
We strive to make the most efficient and effective use of our church resources by adapting our facilities strategies to local circumstances, facilitating our church gatherings and ministry needs by meeting in the homes and other meeting facilities owned by our own members, renting existing church facilities during off hours as needed and by commandeering the use of public places to gather publicly.
In light of the limitations imposed by governments and by normal prudence during the Global Pandemic of the Coronavirus we find that our more frugal approach to securing the use facilities for our church gatherings is a great advantage by keeping our gatherings smaller, more numerous and closer to one another in the adjoining walking-distance neighborhoods where our members actually live.
Reform #17 — “Resourceful in Our Facilities Use”