Cracks in the community and St. Peter's
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Reet Marten Sehr01 Aug 2022 12:32
Finns are doing it right. Peetri members all need to get behind exploring options before it’s financially too late. Moving the columbarium is the necessary first step. https://www.blogto.com/real-es...
Beware of Trojan Horse01 Aug 2022 14:35
I hope it works out for the Finns. But beware: “It was a bait and switch,” Moshe Safdie said in a recent interview. “We worked with the client for a year in good faith. Then they said, in effect, ‘We have no intention of building this.’ It’s outrageous.” Even one of the world’s top architects has felt manipulated and abused in a real estate scheme:
https://www.theglobeandmail.co...

“It has become obvious our plan was used as a Trojan Horse”.
Reet to Trojan Horse01 Aug 2022 15:04
I read that article in Globe and Mail last week and don’t see any connection to what the Finns are doing other than real estate development is always complex and has associated risks. Peetri Kiriku juhatus is on right path with moving columbarium, which would allow for options that might save the congregation.
Samalt IP numbrilt on siin varem kommenteerinud: Reet Marten Sehr (12:32)
Really?01 Aug 2022 15:41
You say “Moving the columbarium is the necessary first step”. It is the step required to get “proceeds from the sale of the church”.

On that point I recall the discussion and the terms in which the current leadership presents the issue:

https://www.eesti.ca/the-gener...

The question put forward by the current leadership is what will be done with the “proceeds from the sale of the building”, and they would have a new Future Committee examine all “available options”.

In the same announcement already there is a bait and switch. For one group, pitched in Estonian, the proceeds from the “sale of the church” would “allow us to continue our own activity for a longer time and to broaden our missionary work as well as better serve our community”.

Then a switch in English makes explicit a previously undisclosed option and that “all options” on the use of proceeds from the sale of the “property” are open, subject to the “examination” of what’s “available” (“outreach” and “additional programmes”) by the “new Future Committee”.
Samalt IP numbrilt on siin varem kommenteerinud: Beware of Trojan Horse (14:35)
Reet01 Aug 2022 16:46
Currently, the entire property is designated as a cemetery due to the columbarium. No plans to redevelop or sell - even to another congregation - is possible until the columbarium has been moved as a cemetery can’t be sold. The church executive is doing due diligence with its proposal to move the columbarium. The executive will explore all possible responsible options once they are able to do so.
Samalt IP numbrilt on siin varem kommenteerinud: Reet Marten Sehr (12:32), Reet to Trojan Horse (15:04)
Many questions01 Aug 2022 19:52
So why the sudden excitement to move the columbarium now? Is there a best before date to sell St. Peter's?
The vote on moving the columbarium has not yet even been properly concluded because 78 registered voters do not equal 84 votes, so when will the new [properly monitored]vote occur?
member01 Aug 2022 18:40
This article is disingenuous. 'There had been no substantial opposition to the proposal'. How many knew about it at that early stage amidst the lockdowns? Once the opposition comes, you just diss them instead of listen and try to work with them.

Weird how the Esto community is swimming in cash for vanity projects like the Monks house and glass hut with no space for a dumpster, but cannot even have one fundraising drive to boost the church before pushing to sell it off. The pastor is on the board of the 'Estonian Center', right? This is a grave conflict of interest and he should step down now.
Reet to Many Questions01 Aug 2022 21:18
The church is not able to survive financially beyond another 2-3 years. It takes at least a couple of years to go through the application process and move the columbarium. I’m signing off this thread as my preference is to discuss with people who attach their names to posts.
Samalt IP numbrilt on siin varem kommenteerinud: Reet Marten Sehr (12:32), Reet to Trojan Horse (15:04), Reet (16:46)
Olev04 Aug 2022 11:53
Thanks Reet for your positive remarks and laying out the situation as it really is!
It seems that the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth is intensifying as it becomes increasingly apparent that the reality of the situation is inconvenient!
However we need to remain focused
on our primary purpose as I mentioned above.
Moses too led the Jews to the promised land after getting rid of the Golden Calf.
Talvi (FYI Olev’s wife:))04 Aug 2022 10:19
The Finns’ architect’s plan consists of tearing down the existing church building and then redevelop as a condo building with a church on-site. And they have to apply for rezoning the property.
?04 Aug 2022 10:43
St. Peter's Council was to step back as the columbarium vote did not go through. When will the new elections for the Council occur?
AKA Stage mother04 Aug 2022 12:43
Re your stepping stone. Does everyone know what you're pushing to tear down? Do they know in Estonia? Do they know you know? Who that knows supports this?
Samalt IP numbrilt on siin varem kommenteerinud: Beware of Trojan Horse (14:35), Really? (15:41)
Christian05 Aug 2022 09:51
To Olev Maimets - Golden Calf? Is that what St. Peter's church is? A false idol, a cult image, worshipped by non-believers? This biblical reference boggles the mind.
Olev05 Aug 2022 16:06
The "Friends" are placing the building at a higher priority than the purpose of the congregation. This seems to be akin to worshiping a false idol.
hmmmm08 Aug 2022 13:34
The "Friends" of St Peter's want to save the church as a House of God for future generations. The current Council want to cash in, and sell the St. Peter's congregation's church, [aka the 'Golden Calf'], for what end? Which group is more Christian?
Samalt IP numbrilt on siin varem kommenteerinud: ? (10:43)
Re: Reet M.-S. who is on EKN05 Aug 2022 19:21
Our Toronto Estonian community is fractured and EKN seems blind to this .EKN members Reet Marten-Sehr, Kairi Taul-Hemingway Urve Tamberg and others took a free trip to Stockholm in June to attend the World Council Conference. Is this wise use of ANY organization's funds? The conference could have easily been on Zoom but, a free trip is more exciting.
atfopk06 Aug 2022 05:02
Totally irrelevant comment.
Christian06 Aug 2022 12:56
Not so Mr. Maimets. The church is part of the congregation, built, paid for and owned by the members. Not the juhatus. No-one, certainly not the minister can override the wishes of, at the moment, over 1100 signatories of the petition to save the building. The proposals of how to do this financially seem eminently reasonable. E.E.L.K. is our Lutheran Church abroad, run from the bottom up. The congregation. EELK, run from Eesti, is a top-down church, run by the bishops, not the worshippers. St. Peter's ill-advisedly joined EELK.The congregation's wishes should be heard, not through a questionable rigged vote by a few, as seems to be the case.
There has been no transparency, if through wile and guile, great expense St. Peter's church is sold, as to where the monies will go. Nor where the congregation will worship. Without their own house of worship the congregation will certainly dwindle. Has the juhatus considered this?
Samalt IP numbrilt on siin varem kommenteerinud: Christian (09:51)
To Christian14 Aug 2022 14:34
Do yourself a favour..grow up.
Joyce14 Aug 2022 14:46
Christian has his head extremely far up his a—. Mr Maimets only speaks the facts and yet again, as with the EM, all of a sudden a group of do nothing know it alls come out of the woodwork, criticizing and demeaning those who have the courage to act.
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