To some this will seem like no big deal, but to others what we did today is a massive thing. Just a few hours ago I put together a purchase order to replace our church pews with the chair pictured to the left. This isn’t something that we did flippantly, but I recognize that it will signify something very hard for our people. The tipping point for going to chairs was money… isn’t that always the case. At the end of the day, re-upholstering them every few years was just too expensive when we looked at the one time cost of a chair.
What will happen to our pews? We are hoping that this isn’t the end of the road for Romeo’s pews. I am currently working on finding a way to sell our chairs to a new church or old church that needs them. I found a very cool website called Used Pews for doing this. If all else fails, we will be finding a ministry in the area to donate them to.
There are a lot of side benefits to changing the auditorium to chairs. But there is also a lot of sentimentality to keeping them.
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