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No. Here, many of these country parishes are sitting on large reserves of money. Money pledged or bequested decades ago by people who have been in the yard for 80 years. The one I was at Sunday is sitting on $330,000 in the endowment account. There was one I had a contract with for about 8 months a while back that had $440,000 in the bank. The denominations know these little congregations with 20-40 people have all this money and want to gain access to it.
Some bishops write bills of attainment to resolve that issue.
 
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No. Here, many of these country parishes are sitting on large reserves of money. Money pledged or bequested decades ago by people who have been in the yard for 80 years. The one I was at Sunday is sitting on $330,000 in the endowment account. There was one I had a contract with for about 8 months a while back that had $440,000 in the bank. The denominations know these little congregations with 20-40 people have all this money and want to gain access to it.
Ah, that's very different. Here, most country parishes are struggling to pay the bills from one month to the next.
 
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I made my kids some scrambled eggs, had them brush their teeth, and sent them out to wait for the school bus. I heard, "Daddy, daddy, it's snowing!" The old snow from last week is not gone because we haven't had a day over 25 degrees. But, the snow blower I ordered from a proper tool company arrived yesterday! No more shoveling for me.
 
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I made my kids some scrambled eggs, had them brush their teeth, and sent them out to wait for the school bus. I heard, "Daddy, daddy, it's snowing!" The old snow from last week is not gone because we haven't had a day over 25 degrees. But, the snow blower I ordered from a proper tool company arrived yesterday! No more shoveling for me.
It's mostly melted where I am.
 
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I'm hoping church doesn't get cancelled this week. I've written what I think is a pretty good sermon and this church is the one that has the radio broadcast. The subject matter is the 1 Corinthians reading, which fairly naturally divided into 4 points.
 
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I'm hoping church doesn't get cancelled this week. I've written what I think is a pretty good sermon and this church is the one that has the radio broadcast. The subject matter is the 1 Corinthians reading, which fairly naturally divided into 4 points.
In my neck of woods it's starting to warm up. Hope the weather is ok for you!
 
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