This morning when we went to the Uearatanomori Park for our exercise, we went further to check out our new church building, that was announced during this past weekend's District Conference. Our current church building sits up high on a hill and is inconvenient for many people to come to church since there is no bus service. You either have to drive, taxi, or walk. Some of the younger missionaries do bike but it would very strenuous to do so. So in my opinion, this is a very welcome change. Of course, I am a little bit biased since it is only 12 minutes to walk there and 4 minutes to drive. Not sure about the parking situation since the announcement at District Conference said coin parking. There is a pay parking lot about 1/2 block away but this building does have about 20 parking spaces as you can see in the picture. The gate is on wheels and can slide open. There is a similar gate in front of the main entrance. Initially, we will only use 2 floors, so church leaders are thinking about leasing the other 2 floors to other interested parties.
The building announcement included combining the Kagoshima Branch and the Taniyama Branch. There is strength in numbers. The only disadvantage I see is members living north of the current church building now will have to travel further to the new building. The members from the current Taniyama Branch will have to travel further. We will probably need to find new apartments near the new building for the missionaries living at the bottom of the hill close to the current branch building. Since Kagoshima University is just next to us, most apartments around here are tailored for students (small to make it affordable), so finding apartments large enough to accommodate 2-4 people will be difficult.
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