Find something unusual, peculiar, unique, historical, castrophofic, AND then accentuate the positive....contact the STATE, the FEDS, the COUNTY, the U.N. (locate the lend a cow in Boswana program.)

Seek out grants, and pledges, and contributions. Make a goal and establish a slogan "all new gates in 2008!"

Make lists of your journeymen, countrymen, plumbers, carpenters, nannies, grannies, councilmen, and gentried-women.

In short....draw in ALL your resources.

Most visitors to Shakespeare's resting place in Stratford on Avon....do not FIRST marvel on the fee to view his slab-o-stone.....but instead, world-wide from Avon to Albany, from Berkshires to Boston, from Canterberry to Chicago, from Dingle to Dallas, (ad infinum and all the nations of the globe)

They ALL marvel over the the kneeling cushions. Needle-point, hand rendered, by members of the church - which are along the gauntlet towards the "sacred tomb."

Find a single, singularity....maximize.....and ask for contributions.

Europe and America are full of "dead churchs".....to live and breath, and exude life...the congregation must live, breath, dedicate, concecrate, hollow their own ground.....

Hiring an outside "gun-slinger" to do your dirty-work will only result in people expecting to "be serviced" and not a congregation "ready for service."

Your pastor needs to read "Nehamia" and focus on rebuilding the city and equiping the saints!

Sincerely,
Gargoyle