Sunday Denver Post on the Longmont LifeBridge Union annexation issue
| By Jen Caltrider - Nov 18th, 2007 at 8:48 am EST |
| Also listed in: Longmont LifeBridge |
A big article in today's Sunday Denver Post on the Longmont LifeBridge Union annexation issue.
From the Denver Post:
Church as developer inspires skeptics
On the back cover of Rick Rusaw's book "The Externally Focused Church," a sentence in bold type asks: "How Can Your Church Get the Attention of Your Community?"
His own church, LifeBridge Christian, has gotten the attention of just about everybody in its hometown of Longmont, although not in the ways Rusaw and his co-author had in mind.
LifeBridge's proposal to build a high-end residential and retail community - on land the city was eyeing for open space - has upended Longmont's leadership and spawned a vote to halt the development's annexation.
In the process, the project has ignited a fight that has strayed well beyond the usual not-in-my-backyard angst into the uneasy territory of religious beliefs and beliefs about religion... (snip)
..."Blind faith" in a development proposal lacking in specifics is one of the main reasons Jen Gartner says she undertook what became the petition drive to let voters decide the annexation question. "
I'm not sure if they're putting more trust in this developer because it's religious-based, but to me, they are still a developer," Gartner said.
The good folks of Longmont are mounting a campaign for the January 29th, 2008 special election. They are literally doing it on a shoestring. If you'd like to help them out, join the Longmont LifeBridge group. Just click here to join: http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/group/LongmontLifeBridge
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