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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There were some truly lovely people there when I was there.  For awhile it was a wonderful and welcome church committed to the right things.  Then it got weird or sure.  Right around the time the Hatmakers became super famous.  It felt like ANC was more and more a vehicle for self-promotion, which looking back, makes me sort of sad.  One of the stranger things about ANC was that their public posture was one of having a super, tight knit community that was all about giving and serving the community.  In reality, though, it was very cliqueish, disjointed, remote, and barely-engaged at the leadership level.  On months with five Sundays they'd take church "off" and we'd farm out to do various community service projects, which were a great idea, but I never saw the Hatmakers during these Sundays and there was very little outside church community to speak off apart from this. No real mentorship or shepherding or anything like that.  It wasn't a normal church in a lot of ways, being honest.    [/quote]

I could have written this myself without changing one word. I think there are 3? former church members here, and we are all saying the exact same things.

There were 2-3 CCR lay families who did all the work. Once they left, the church fell apart. That and the “were affirming” bomb that Jen dropped in an interview without discussing it first with any of the elders. 2/3 of the church left in the weeks after that. That was very, very, very painful for a whole lot of sweet, loving people who had devoted years to building ANC, who were now considered hateful bigots by their pastors/friends, *literally* overnight. Heads and hearts spinning like tops. But, it made Jen the darling of progressive Christianity, so, priorities.

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