![]() Such an arrangement created the OPPOSITE of monastic life. Lights out at 11PM could be broken if two people who are seriously dating and planning on getting married want to watch a movie together, snuggling in the chapel - no one else invited. Also monastic life and living in community becomes impossible when, as one of the commentators mentioned, you've got couples courting, getting married and having babies together mixed with single people who's only focus is on the monastery but who were forced to work around the families preferred schedule and needs. ![]() Buildings don't create ministries, people do. ![]() With no denominational funding (like the Catholic Church!) it soon became a failed experiment and a lesson as to what happens when a church looks to a building to create a ministry. It was basically a group of Evangelicals lead by a pastor who was enamored at the "idea" of a monastery but who had no clue about the difficulties of running such a place. Hope Community Church went bankrupt (distracted by the monastery and the huge, aged space it occupied and the cost of keeping such an old space in good upkeep). Now ten years later, suffice it to say the set up did not work and the Monastery is no more.
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