The declining donations, attendance and collection-plate revenues, all of them working together give the First Baptist Church a hard time to get through. Now the church has to sell the stained glass window in the choir loft to cash in on the value of it. On this tiffany original, for almost 100 years, this multicolored image of St.John the Divine has been gazed and worshiped, a book in his left hand-maybe the Bible-and a blue sky and water behind him, in the distance.
¡°No one wants to see this Tiffany go,¡± said a pastor, Rev. Suzanne Andrews. ¡°But when it came down to the question of do we sell the Tiffany to keep our doors open for the ministry of God, then the decision became quite clear to all of us, that this Tiffany window- as beautiful as it is- is a material thing.¡±
On this decision, some feels that this memorial window has been part of this church and is in memory of some people who did a lot for this church. Others see this as something to celebrate, saying it represents the sacrifice of material for the spirit of God. And this church was not the first and also not the last to use the Tiffany stained windows to get over the hard time. The value is in the eyes of beholder. What is waiting for this Tiffany window which was signed by Louis Comfort Tiffany? We will see.

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Friday, December 11, 2009