By Gail Hollenbeck, Time Correspondent
Friday, January 21, 2011
SPRING HILL — Gerald Miller was not happy about the news he had to deliver to the congregation of St. Paul the Apostle Church last Sunday.
Miller, the church's lay administrator, informed members that their meeting place for the past eight years would no longer be available to them.
"I was depressed about it," Miller said. "We'd been meeting at United Church of Christ and had a fantastic relationship with them. They always bent over backward to accommodate us."
Miller had recently learned that the church on Mariner Boulevard, from which St. Paul's had been renting a fellowship hall, had grown to the point of needing the hall and the accompanying parking spaces for its own use on Sunday mornings and would not be renewing St. Paul's lease.
"They didn't want us to leave, but they can ...