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2007-08-07 issue:

Boulder Church gives back part of JoinHands gift

by Gordon Houser

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At the Mennonite Men (MM) booth at San José 2007 on July 5, Eldon Mast (left), chair of Boulder (Colo.) Mennonite Church (BMC), Jim Gingerich, MM coordinator, Lawrence Bartel, MM treasurer, and Karen Cox, pastor of BMC, help put a roof on a model of Rochester Area (N.Y.) Mennonite Fellowship, which will receive a grant in the next two years from JoinHands, MM’s church building program. BMC received a JoinHands grant in 1986 for $50,000, which helped the church buy a building for $250,000.

In 2004, BMC sold the building for $1.1 million and bought another for $1.2 million, plus $150,000 for remodeling. The church is in the process of raising $350,000, say Mast and Cox, but is giving 10 percent of what they raise to JoinHands to help other new congregations. “Our church wanted to follow the firstfruits guidelines,” said Mast. The church, which has about 100 members, plans to give around $9,000 every six months over a three-year period. Cox, who became pastor in 2005, says BMC is “a vibrant, healthy congregation,” and the new building gives them room for growth. People still grateful for the grant BMC received more than 20 years ago, she says.

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