Lewis,

Thank you for your response.

Our church sounds similar.

We are on the eastern edge of the desert, just shy of the border with New Mexico.

btw - when I think of the wilderness that Israel was in, before they could go in to the land, I can't help imagining that it must have been like New Mexico & Arizona.

It probably wasn't 100% sand dunes, like parts of the Sahara, because the herds & flocks needed a little something to munch on, like cattle in west Texas or New Mexico.

We started in a hotel meeting room, then one of our members allowed us the use of their barn, for services.

They ended up moving, so we looked for another place to meet in.

We were then meeting in a dry cleaners, that had gone out of business, and they allowed us to do some work, to make it look more like a church.

Then, 3 members of a, by then, dissolved Baptist church started visiting.

They joined our church, and then said that we could have the old building that they use to meet in.

They had refurbished it some years back, so it was in pretty good shape.

Apparently, they had come to be in that building a similar way, a number of years earlier.

Another group of Baptists had built a building, a long time ago.

Then, after they were no longer meeting as a church, eventually one of the survivors told that subsequent group of Baptists, that they could have the building.

Then years later, they did the exact same thing for us.

We never would have been able to afford a building like that, but Jesus graciously allowed us to be there, now.

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