Today was THE PERFECT DAY!
Wow what a day it was in Buffalo – it was the perfect day
I was over at St Florian for a little bit today and got to meet one of the local business owners – The GlassMan – always cool to get a little more history about the area. Speaking of learning – yesterday Nick and I did a quick video for Sunday at ST Florian and as we were leaving I swung by to say hi to Frida a long time resident and super nice lady that lives on St Florian. She asked me if were going to be moving in and I told her it looked like were…hopefully sometime in the fall so then she asked what we were going to name the church!
Well we have been kicking around some names for a couple of weeks – asking ourselves all the questions like can we keep it Elmwood if we don’t actually “live” on Elmwood. I named it Elmwood as much for the area/community/vibe as did for the actual street. Do you give up all that we have worked for to get name recognition in our city – so people know we exist – and then start all over???
I shared with Frida some of the names that we had been thinking about – one is The Chapel at Black Rock – which I like but she immediately informed me that St Florian was NOT in Black Rock so I learned a little something new with that conversation.
Speaking of names – what do you think? Do we change it, does it really matter, does keeping it Elmwood give us some history to how and where we started? Remember we will be planting new congregations in the months and years to come all over the city so does the name need to help people identify where it is…?
Here are a few names possibilites
The Chapel at Elmwood, The Chapel at Hertel, The Northwest Community Chapel, The Chapel by the Lake (just kiddin) The Chapel at St Florian, The Chapel at Black Rock, The Chapel off Elmwood, The ChapeloffElmwoodonHertelatStFlorian!
Whadoyouthink?
