2004
Daniel O. Worthington
Land Purchasing for New Congregations
The selection and acquisition of fifteen new church sites in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia are the fruit of more than twenty years work in stewardship and a change in the culture that vies and supports church planting and the planters. The commitment to successfully plant new congregation and acquire church sites has had the support of the diocesan clergy and laity. The excitement of church planting has caught the imagination of the Diocese. A church site acquisition approach is offered with additional information to assist in land purchase. A biblically based stewardship model give credence to tithing as a normative standard of giving and has assisted the fund-raising efforts for land purchases. Two case studies are included about a land purchase and a donated site.