Fred Peatross

‎Twenty + yrs ago a group of deacons & young leaders struggled via committees, meetings, & one on one discussions 2 shift the church's thinking from a building priority budget to a missional priority budget. This was in the middle of a period when the church chose to spend 1000s of $s more than necessary in replacing a boundary wall Everyone understood it needed replaced. But everyone thought it w...ould be replaced with a similar cinder block wall. Instead the leaders chose to hire an expensive masonry & have the cinder block wall replaced with a fancy hand-laid stoned wall. This screamed to the church's priorities. Those of us fighting 4 change referred 2 this new wall as the 'wailing wall.'

It took 2-3 yrs to convince these leaders otherwise but at the end of the day there were huge advances. -- soon this same church began allocating $20k to an annual missions budget - and sent it's own members overseas 2x a year. Now 2 decades later this same church has returned to a building priority budget.

Different era, different leaders, different ideas. Funny how, with time, we cycle through orders of importance