My family started attending Crestwood United Methodist Church in 1991. Uor three children were raised within this church setting. Our family was very active and supportive within the church and especially its youth groups during our children's school years. We moved from the Crestwood area in 1999 but returned in 2001. Once again we (my wife and I) began to attend services there. But it had become a different church. less friendly, more distant. Due to illness and a surgery we did not attend for approximately three months. The only time that I heard from the church was one evening in November of 2005 when someone knocked on our door. I answered the door, my arm in a sling from an operation. The gentleman said hello and handed me a box of tithing envelopes and walked away. Since that time, we have heard from representatives of Crestwood Untied Methodist Church three times. Twice by telephone, to encourage us to donate to the new activity center they were building and once yesterday (01-02-2008) when a box of tithing envelopes arrived in the mail.
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