Post by Logan on Mar 3, 2016 6:11:02 GMT -6
Last summer, after praying about a building his church had pegged as a possible new home, Neal Porter talked to his two teenage children about the neighboring establishment — Filly’s Gentlemen's Club and adult gift shop.
He told them, “We have no right to judge them because they are just like us and we hope they wouldn’t judge us,” he said.
Porter is a member of Lafayette Community Church, which is no stranger to non-traditional venues for worship. The nearly 9-year-old congregation has held services in a strip mall on Lafayette's south side for five years.
Since then, however, the 80 typical Sunday attendants has nearly tripled to 230 congregants, forcing leadership to once again look for a new space. After two years of searching, the church found its home in a non-residential, industrial part of Concord Road, next door to Filly's Gentlemen's Club and adult gift shop.
Read more: www.indystar.com/story/news/2016/03/02/lafayette-church-welcomes-strip-club-new-neighbor/81243774/
He told them, “We have no right to judge them because they are just like us and we hope they wouldn’t judge us,” he said.
Porter is a member of Lafayette Community Church, which is no stranger to non-traditional venues for worship. The nearly 9-year-old congregation has held services in a strip mall on Lafayette's south side for five years.
Since then, however, the 80 typical Sunday attendants has nearly tripled to 230 congregants, forcing leadership to once again look for a new space. After two years of searching, the church found its home in a non-residential, industrial part of Concord Road, next door to Filly's Gentlemen's Club and adult gift shop.
Read more: www.indystar.com/story/news/2016/03/02/lafayette-church-welcomes-strip-club-new-neighbor/81243774/