Courtesy | Adus Dorsey The LDS Teasdale church, which some locals called "the Little White Chapel," was demolished on Friday after workers removed its bell. The building had not been in use for several years.

Heritage Little White Chapel was built by locals and served the community for years.

As soon as he laid eyes on the Mormon meetinghouse in Teasdale, Bryce "Mike" Rubeck knew he wanted to live in the tiny Wayne County community, and for 26 years, hes made his home there.

But the "Little White Chapel," as some called it, is no longer there. Despite a last-ditch effort to save the building, the church, which had long sat unused, was demolished Friday.

A group of residents had proposed that Wayne County be deeded the church and a nonprofit be formed to raise money to preserve the building as a museum. County commissioners had passed a resolution in support of the plan and the Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area had agreed to a request to help with the preservation.

But after reviewing the plan, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints decided to proceed with the demolition.

"Church leaders carefully evaluate all of the circumstances when considering a buildings future," church spokesman Cody Craynor said. "In this instance, some local residents had expressed interest in repurposing the Teasdale chapel, but the building had sat empty for several years and would have required significant and costly repairs."

Instead, the land where the chapel stood will be donated to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers, which occupies a neighboring building on the same parcel, Craynor said.

Rubeck, a non-Mormon, said the church was important to all residents regardless of their faith. He described the chapel as the heart and soul of Teasdale, which he estimates has a population of 125 to 150 people.

"When I first visited here in the late 1980s and saw the church," Rubeck recalled, "it radiated a spirit to me and I said, I have to live here. "

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Construction on the former Hattiesburg Hunt Club is now underway.

The building off of Highway 49 will now be the home of Venture Church, an outreach program that is an expansion of First Baptist Church of Hattiesburg.

Byron Malone, the pastor for Venture Church, said he hoped the new location would help the ministry grow.

"You know one of the things we began to do at Venture Church was look for a second location to go into a multi site program with our ministry. And so we began looking for a place to to launch a new site two years ago, but this really began to come together last fall," said Malone.

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On Sunday at the Sky Island Unitarian Universalist Church, the service is about TimeforPride!

The Rev. Christiane Heyde will present the sermon. When we talk about Pride, especially six days before the Gay Pride weekend in Bisbee, we think of the letters LGBTQ. What do they stand for, and why does it matter? Is pride a sin or a virtue? As a welcoming congregation, we get to revisit our commitment to include all and learn more, so we do not allow lack of knowledge or understanding to risk judgment. This service will be facilitated byRitaAronna.

The youth religious Education Lesson is The Gift of Invitation. Children will explore multiple ways to communicate that someone is invited. The story focuses on the Jewish custom of welcoming Elijah with a place at the Seder table and an open dooratPassover.

The Sky Island Unitarian Universalist Church meets Sundays at 10:30 a.m. at 125 2nd St., just north of the SSVEC Building. For information on the church and their programs call 378-0197 or visit the churchs websiteatuuchurchaeaz.org.

Huachuca United Methodist Church will host a huge rummage sale, Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 506 Gila Ave. Take Highway 90 to Yuma Street to Gila Ave., take a right on Gila and follow to the top of the hill. Proceeds are to benefit the Food Pantry and projects inthecounty.

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WINDHAM - For 20 years, the big white church at 723 Roosevelt Trail in North Windham has been the setting for some of the most significant events in the lives of Windhams residents. Hundreds of weekly services and dozens of weddings, funerals, baptisms, and concerts have taken place within its walls. Although the North Windham Union Church UCC has been located there for many years, the new sanctuary was finished and opened for services in June 1994.

On Saturday, June 14, and Sunday, June 15, join the members and friends of the North Windham Union Church for a special 20th anniversary celebration of the new sanctuary.

On Saturday, the church will host a potluck supper of chop suey, mac and cheese, salad, and dessert at 5 p.m. in the Parish Hall. Bruce Small, who was the project leader and building contractor for the new church will share a slide show and other memories. The dinner is open to the community.

On Sunday at 10 a.m., Interim Pastor Rev. David Hall will conduct a special service of celebration commemorating the first service in the new church. The Rev. Dr. Rick Small, who was the minister during the construction, will be joining us along with a few members of the original building committee. Dr. Rick Nickerson, Minister of Music, will lead the choir and the congregation singing the same music as was heard in the first service 20 years ago. The worship service will begin in the Parish Hall and then we will proceed into the new church as was done in 1994. All are welcome.

Following the service, the celebration will continue with a barbecue lunch outside to also celebrate Fathers Day. Additionally, the Little Meeting House next door will host an open house to showcase the old sanctuary and some of the community service projects that continue to use the space today.

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Black Rock Congregational Church has the church, and the steeple, and soon will open the doors of its new Black Rock Turnpike home to all its people.

Services at the new church are scheduled to begin June 15.

"We're probably a couple of months later than we expected to be, but we're not too far off," said Ken Brix, the congregation's executive director.

Those that have been able to tour the church complex at 3685 Black Rock Turnpike, which incorporated some of the original building, have been impressed, he said.

"We've gotten a great reaction," he said. "Everybody that sees it, loves it."

The congregation broke ground in October 2009, after about a decade of planning, preparations and securing the required permits.

Plans initially sparked fierce neighborhood opposition, with critics describing the early design as a "mega-church."

Plans were revised several times, and in 2009, the overall size of the new church was reduced, in part, because of the sluggish economy.

While the church was being built, the congregation's services were conducted at Notre Dame High School, and weekly activities were moved to First Presbyterian Church on Easton Turnpike. The church offices were relocated to Stratford.

The new church complex includes a worship center that can accommodate 950 people, a wing designated for children's education, an expanded welcome center, rooms for junior high and high school students, a cafe, a larger kitchen and a prayer room.

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Construction continues on Ferndale's Church Road Monday, June 2, 2014. The $4 million project, from Main Street to Heather Drive, includes widening the road, new sidewalks, water, sewer and stormwater lines. The project should be finished in October.

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FERNDALE - Work is well underway to widen and improve Church Road.

The road from Main Street to Thornton Street is closed until October so it can be brought up to city standards.

Crews will add curbs, sidewalks and street lights along the road.

Access will be limited to local residents. People who need to get in and out of residential streets along Church Road can expect long delays at times.

Drivers that would use Church to get from Main to Thornton should use Vista Drive or Olson Road.

The $4 million construction cost is covered mostly by state and federal grants.

Church Road has been Ferndale's top priority for improvements. In addition to being narrow and lacking sidewalks, the road is in bad condition in places.

The project has been in the works for a long time. In 2012 the city acquired strips of land along Church Road from 24 property owners so the road could be widened.

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Behind the tarps and chain-link fencing, steel beams rise like matchstick creations toward the heavens.

Every day, the skeleton of the new St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church and the Newman Center seems to grow taller -- and more awe-inspiring.

When completed next spring, there is no doubt this traditional Gothic style church and student center will be a sight to behold, and an impressive entrance to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln city campus on the Q street block between 16th and 17th streets.

Which is exactly what Father Robert Matya of the campus church and Newman Center wants.

I think people are drawn to beauty, said Matya, who has been with the Newman Center since 1998. So that is the hope and the idea of the church. I think it will draw curiosity and people will want to come in and visit.

Curiosity -- and the opportunity to walk beyond the barricades brought nearly 200 people to the hot construction site Thursday, when Bishop James D. Conley of the Lincoln Diocese blessed the four cast bronze bells -- named St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke and St. John -- in a mostly Latin ceremony dating back to medieval times.

In ancient times, the ringing of the bells was the only form of mass communication, Conley said. Bells tolled with a call to worship, to notify villages of good news, bad news and death; and to warn of impending dangers.

Everyone was attuned to the sounds of the bells, Conley said. Parishes were mapped out to the sounds of the bells.

When bells could no longer be heard because of distance, a new church with its own bell was established.

The bells almost take on a personification, Conley said. Each one is named.

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A rapidly growing Catholic Church in Norway has resulted in plans to build a larger cathedral in the northern city of Trondheim.

The new cathedral,expected to be completed in 2015,will cost 80m Norwegian kroner (10m), L'Osservatore Romano reported June 2.

The current cathedral in the city, dedicated to Saint Olav, is too small to accommodate its visitors and too challenging to be renovated. It will therefore be demolished to allow the construction of a new church with adequate capacity.

St. Olav's has seen increasing numbers of Catholic and Protestant pilgrims coming from Norway and the rest of Scandinavia ever since Pope John Paul II visited the city in June 1989.

That visit gave considerable impetus to the church, making it an ecumenical hub, L'Osservatore Romano reported. It also helped increase involvement of the Catholic Church in the ecumenical events of central Norway.

Today's Church in Norway has members from more than 70 different nationalities from all continents. Around 10,000 Catholics are registered in the diocese of Trondheim, while the total number of Catholics in the country totals about 150,000.

When considering whether or not to renovate, the diocese took into account the fact that the cathedral, completed in 1973 by the artist Hkon Bleken, had always had problems such as poor insulation, and rust that had affected the steel structures.

For these reasons, the cathedrals curate, Father Egil Mogstad, said it is time to start the hard work of building a new cathedral, with size, functionality, and architectural form in our city."

He anticipates challenges, but believes they can be managed. For example, he noted the parish is using its temporary chapel to celebrate Sunday Mass and, for large events, they can rent a larger church. He also noted the support they have received from volunteers and mentioned contributions of several dioceses in Germany.

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Clarke County, Miss. It's been nearly two weeks since members of Mt. Zion Missionary Baptist Church in Clarke County, found vandals and thieves struck their construction site. Pastor Jimmie Bunch of Mt. Zion, says the concrete slab was ready to pour but when he arrived at the new building site he noticed the vandalism.

"Some people came in and stole all of the copper tubing, busted up part of the foundation, stole all of the concrete wire, and stole 40 something pieces of 16 foot lumber," said Bunch. "It set us back a couple of days, but we looked at it as though it's a stumbling block. We are going to step on it by the grace of God and move forward."

In wake of the vandalism Mt. Zion has experienced, many have come forward to help the church get back on their feet and overcome that stumbling block. The group known as Indian Grave Baptist Church Construction Mission Team has volunteers from 5 different states helping Mt. Zion.

"We want to bring glory to God and to enable the church here to continue to minister," said mission team volunteer Carol Carter. "Our ministry ends in a week. There ministry began over a hundred years ago and hopefully in another hundred years if God doesn't decide to send Jesus after the church, they'll still be here."

The church built in the late 1800s has long been a staple in the community and despite the vandalism it recently experienced, the church continues to make strides in the community.

"I think it's wonderful," said Pastor Matt Martin of County Line Baptist Church. "The gospel breaks down barriers and I can see Pastor Bunch here doing a great job in this community. Just a wonderful privilege and opportunity to come and to preach and fellowship with other believers. I know they're going to be a huge blessing in this community to Christ."

The Clarke County Sheriff's Department continues to investigate this case, if you have any information that can help investigators, call The East Mississippi Crimestoppers Line at 855-485-8477.

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Publication Date : 02-06-2014

On the anniversary of the introduction of the state ideology Pancasila on June 1, an act of intolerance occurred in Yogyakarta as residents and members of Ormas (mass organisations) attacked a Pentecostal church in Pangukan, Sleman regency on Sunday.

The group stoned the church, which had been vacated by its congregation after Sunday Service, destroying the buildings glass windows.

Police and military officers were powerless to stop the violent act. The regencys public order officers installed zinc fences after the police inspected the area.

Turmudzi, board member from the Islamic study group, Majelis Talim Al Huda said that local residents, along with members of the Islamic Jihad Front (FJI) and Islamic Peoples Forum (FUI) were responsible for damaging the church.

The reason is not related to worship. We attacked the church because it has no building permit, Turmudzi, who suffered injuries to his hands after stoning the church, claimed.

Separately, Sleman Deputy Regent Yuni Satya Rahayu admitted that the administration had not granted a building permit to the church, saying that the church board faked signatures of local residents to fulfill the requirements of the permit.

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