Showing posts with label 40 years. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 40 years. Show all posts

Monday, April 14, 2008


If you drove by the church this weekend, you saw this sign. And if you walked in at 4 p.m. you heard organ music equal to none.
This sign also represents a lot of work behind the scenes. Let me try to remember some of the names: Bonnie Moyer, Bill Fridey, Gerry Hartzel, Nancy Constanzer, Dorcas Lehman, Brenda Oelschlager, Barb Musselman, Lorraine Shoemaker, Nancy Fridey, and.... Hey, I didn't take a photo so I'm in trouble. I know there were others. Let me look them up for the next post.
Helen Keller made a wonderful presentation to mark the 40th anniversary of the dedication of this organ.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

date stone 1968

I walk in the front door and see two date stones to the right. One fits the new bricks of the building and is "1968." The other is aged and weathered and says "1892." It is obviously imported from an earlier age and place.

1968. One year before Woodstock. One year before a whole bunch of stuff.

But, now, 40 years before this beautiful building was built. One persons tells me they remember walking into this building as a high school kid, singing "We're Marching to Zion." Another tells me their husband was on the building committee.

I can see having some musical tributes this year. I think I'll look up the hymns sung those first Sundays in the new building.