From Florida-
When the pastor at Mandarin’s All Souls Anglican Church tells his Jacksonville flock to take a hike around 10 a.m. Sunday, it’s OK this time.
They will be going home.
The Anglican church members will walk to a new sanctuary at the former First Coast Home Center at 4042 Hartley Road, a happier walk than many made July 15, 2007, when they left the church they had called home for 28 years due to a split from the Episcopal church.
Home has been Mandarin Middle School for Sunday services since then. Now Sunday’s 1.5-mile hike is to the flock’s future, which was almost under their noses, said the Rev. Gene Strickland.
“We had been looking at other properties, and several parishioners had been driving past it for some time as we prayed for the right place,” said the pastor. “One saw the 'For Sale’ sign that he hadn’t noticed for the year he had driven by it. We stopped to talk to the owner and two days later we had a contract and everything fell into place.”
Looking around the former home-improvement store with a wooden deck, pergolas and seven miniature home fronts that will soon house church offices, member Lynn Lindsey said it seems like the answer to a prayer.
More here-
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-05-20/story/former-home-improvement-store-becomes-new-home-displaced-anglican-church
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