Aging KCK Congregation Bequeaths Building to Serve Youth

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Aging KCK Congregation Bequeaths Building to Serve Youth

Across much of the nation in recent decades, shrinking churches have confronted the painful question of whether they can afford to maintain a building for worship and other activities. Time and again the answer has been no. Sometimes that means finding other places in which to continue offering worship. But often it means either abandoning a structure — and, thus, contributing to the deterioration of a neighborhood — or selling an old building t…