When the Foundation Is Enough
In September 1710, the congregation of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, gathered not inside their new building but around it. The walls stood only...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Ezra 3:11.
In September 1710, the congregation of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Virginia, gathered not inside their new building but around it. The walls stood only four feet high. There were no windows, no roof, no pulpit. Rain had pooled in the unfinished nave the night before, and mud clung to everyone's shoes. Yet Reverend Rowland Jones led them in a hymn of thanksgiving right there among the scaffolding and limestone dust.…
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