Posted by Helen on: 10.11.2007 /
Some members of a church called Crosse Point asked the county if the street their church is on could be renamed Crosse Point Way.
A business owner on the same street objected because of the costs he’d incur reprinting all his business cards and informing all his distributors. His business has been there since 1998 whereas the church has been there since 2004. Evidently more than one business objected and so the planning commissioners turned the request down. Next it goes to the Board of Commissioners for a vote.
Overcash, the church’s administrator, said one of Cross Pointe’s jobs is to serve the community. When some of the 1,700 people who attend services asked that the church make application to the county to change the road’s name, church leaders went to fill out the forms, he said.
Don’t the other businesses on the same street, who would be inconvenienced, count as part of the community the church serves? Asking for your street name to be changed to match your organization, without evidently asking your neighbors on that street first: is that “what Jesus would do”?
HT to Josh Brown for this story.
Comment by: Nathanael
1 10/11/07 7:45 AM | Comment Link |that’s a good one
Comment by: Karen
2 10/11/07 10:48 AM | Comment Link |I just love that the church administrator is named “Overcash.” ;-)
Comment by: benjamin ady
3 10/11/07 10:48 AM | Comment Link |Cross Pointe is going to have to wait ’til they get big enough, expand their facilities enough, so that the street is already entirely on their .. campus. then they can rename it, like … some of the super mega churchs have apparently done.
Comment by: josh
4 10/11/07 11:42 AM | Comment Link |it’s a big church with 3 huge warehouse buildings.
Comment by: Doreen A Mannion
5 10/11/07 11:43 AM | Comment Link |This reminds me of churches who want to expand their facilities. They know they have to get permits, they know they have to get zoning board approval, town council approval, or what have you. What they often fail to do is a neighborhood canvas to inform the neighbors (individuals and businesses) of their intent, thereby denying the church the ability to compromise or otherwise make the neighbors happy. Then these churches wonder why people show up at the zoning or council meetings up in arms!
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Comment by: Jen
6 10/11/07 8:59 PM | Comment Link |… I am not sure I understand why a name change is necessary, anyway. While I hate mega churches as much as the next atheist, I could at least undersand if the issue was expanding the church. But why change the name of the street? THat is so completely pointless.
Comment by: Helen
7 10/12/07 10:27 AM | Comment Link |Thanks for the satellite picture, Josh.
Doreen, yes, it seems very similar to that. Actually the Vineyard Church where I live had a protacted struggle to buy the house next door and expand onto that lot - they lost in the end because the neighbors objected. I’m not sure when the neighbors found out; they certainly were able to voice their opinion in time, anyway.
Jen, exactly - it seems pointless to me too! (For what it’s worth, the article said it was because people thought it would be easier to find the church if the street name was changed)