Our congregation is getting ready to build a Memorial Garden. Construction will begin this fall and will probably be completed by early 2008.
Do any of your churches have memorial gardens? What have you found to be good about them? Bad? Any best practices to recommend?
I recently went with a few members of the planning group to visit other churches in our community that have such gardens. Their administrative practices around selling the plots/niches/whatever and keeping track of who is buried or scattered where spanned the whole spectrum: from mind bogglingly complex,(contracts in triplicate with one set of copies in a safe off site)to frighteningly casual,(church secretary has hand-written list in a folder in her desk drawer). The first church I served had a Revolutionary War Era cemetary surrounding it. This will be a little different, I think.
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A mutual friend of yours and mine used to serve a church that has an awesome memorial garden. I suggest you contact him.
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