family69,
Here are a few posts regarding the GCx Kansas City Church or Cornerstone:
I am not sure what the rationale was for this one. Grace Community Church Plano TX changed their name to LifePointe Church. There was a service where all congregants had to sign off publicly at the end of the service. Reasons for the change were vague at best. GCC was a GC church until c. 2007 when they left the association. George Feiser of the Kansas City church is still pastor at Grace now known as LifePointe.
I have been reading your earlier posts from several years ago. Your story was so similar to many of the woman and the families I knew in Kansas City. I'll be glad to check out your Facebook page in a day or so....is your name the same as the one on this site?
Puff...
Thanks for the post. I am in the long and winding research phase, the part that makes me want to pull my hair out or in this case sign up for Electric Shock Therapy (do they do that any longer?). Sifting through the stories of the past is a painstaking process sure to bring out the PTSD in all involved. Well, I've heard it said..."no way out but thru"...or was it "get out while you can"? Regardless, the GCI movement of the 1970s had some wonderful, well intentioned young believers of which I was one, sadly the misguided voices of a few splashed like a tsunami in an otherwise quite lagoon. Many of us lost our way, some lost trust and a few lost faith.
Currently, I am researching people I knew back in Kansas City who were involved in the Cornerstone Church during the McCotter years. I recently found a woman I recall as having a strong and compassionate character; I found her on "the net" as she retired last year from the City Union Mission in KC, MO. I watched a YouTube post dedicated to her over 30 years of service and intermingled in her life's montage of memories were pictures from 30 years ago; a Godly woman I remembered frozen in time. Gone was the craziness of a church crumbling before us and in it's place the memory of how I once treasured this woman I knew for too little a time. My prayer as I write this book is not to get lost down the dark and lonely path of bitterness and hurt but to shine one small light on a truth I and others lived.
Thank you to anyone willing to share with me. If you want to tell your story to me please feel free to contact me @ vitrectsol7@mac.com
In the next few days I will have my blog up and any who wish (or those bored with TV) can join in on the progress of the book. Come join me on my use (or mis-use) of frequent flyer miles as I go around the country and even to New Zealand to follow up on those that set the wheels in motion...and those that were run over by it.
Blessings, Shelley
