From Wilmington NC-
Look for a mobile Episcopal church rolling down Myrtle Grove Road soon. . .
Holy Cross Episcopal Church, the area’s newest Episcopal parish, is taking a quicker approach to building its first church than just building it from the ground up.
Two words: mail order.
Yep, the church ordered a pre-fabricated church building that will be a permanent structure on its property off Myrtle Grove Road. Sometime in mid-February the church will be moved in sections down the road near Monkey Junction to the church site, 5820 Myrtle Grove Road. The site has already been cleared and graded for the church building. It will be set on pilings and finished on site. Later, as the church grows, its congregation plans to build a bigger church and use the pre-fab church as a multi-use space or fellowship hall.
The church was in a Catch 21 when it came to actually building a physical place.
“We couldn’t get our membership up enough to get the Diocese (of East Carolina) to loan us the money to build a site. But you can’t do that when you’re meeting in a cafeteria,” said Carolyn Moore, the church’s publicist. The church has been meeting each Sunday in the cafeteria at Myrtle Grove Middle School.
The new building “will at least allow us to have services on our property,” she added.
I’ll keep you posted on when to look out for the church being moved in Myrtle Grove.
More here-
http://divine.blogs.starnewsonline.com/11514/look-for-a-mobile-episcopal-church-rolling-down-myrtle-grove-road-soon/
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