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Methodist church closes its doors after 87 years due to 60k refurbishment bill

11:00am Saturday 1st March 2014 in News By Caitlin Marsh

THE final service of an 87-year-old methodist church in Corfe Mullen was held last Sunday.

The Rev Gwyneth Owen, minister of Wimborne Methodist Church and superintendent minister of the Christchurch and Wimborne circuits, said that there were mixed feelings at East End Methodist Church, on Wimborne Road, as it closed its doors for the last time.

She said that the congregation were able to balance the sadness they felt at the closure of the church, which opened in 1927, with a celebration of thanksgiving for the time they spent together sharing their faith in God.

She added: We remembered that we have done so much within the church up until recently, such as the lunch club, fellowship group, and crafts meetings, as well as the christenings, weddings and funerals over the years.

All homes are only temporary and so, while this church has been our spiritual home for many years, what is permanent is the relationship that we have with God and the faith that we carry with us.

We have found that many people from the community have gone on to find other churches within Corfe Mullen which they now go to, and will also continue to meet in each others houses.

East End Methodist Church needed extensive refurbishment work, at an estimated cost of 60,000, which the Rev Gwyneth Owen previously said could not be met by the congregation.

She also spoke of how nationally, the Methodist Church is looking at how people can best use local resources, including the number of church premises which are based closely together.

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Church rebuilding after storm will take time, Philippine priests told

By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service

PALO, Philippines (CNS) -- Since November, any time it rains the interior of the Archdiocese of Palo's Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord gets good and wet.

Without a roof, most of the church's interior is open to the skies.

Mass is celebrated at a portable altar set up under a tent in the one wing where the roof remains intact. Only a couple of hundred people can fit in when normally hundreds more fill the church for Sunday Masses.

Construction crews in early February were working as fast as they could to replace the roof, which was destroyed in Typhoon Haiyan. They had managed to rebuild the structure above the main altar, which still must be refurbished. Once the roof is completed, work will begin on the interior.

When the typhoon hit, the cathedral had just undergone a full renovation as part of the archdiocese's yearlong 75th anniversary celebration. Cardinal Luis Tagle of Manila joined Palo Archbishop John Du to close the celebration Nov. 28 with Mass. A downpour occurred during the liturgy, bringing tears to many worshippers huddled under umbrellas and a tarp strung from wall to wall.

The cathedral is one of dozens of churches, missions and chapels in nine dioceses and archdioceses seriously damaged or destroyed by the typhoon when it slammed the Visayas region of the central Philippines with 195-mile-an-hour winds and an unprecedented storm surge Nov. 8.

At historic Santo Nino Church in Tacloban, Mass is celebrated, rain or shine. A 15-minute rainstorm as Mass began one afternoon in early February sent worshippers searching for pews free from dripping water and left large puddles of water throughout the church.

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On September 21, 1938 one of the worst hurricanes to hit Connecticut left a path of destruction across the state. One of those victims was the First Church of Christ's church along Main Street. On Feb. 27, 1939, The Hartford Courant ran a story on the congregation's decision to rebuild.

The headline read: "New Church Planned In Glastonbury; Structure To Be Erected On Site Of Edifice Destroyed By Hurricane In September."

"The congregation of the First Church of Christ in Glastonbury meeting at the high school auditorium Sunday afternoon unanimously voted to build a new church on the site of the hurricane-demolished church.

The proposed church will be of the 1810 to 1825 Colonial period design with a 116-foot steeple, 40 feet shorter than the old steeple. The seating capacity of the main floor will be 276. The balcony will seat 50 and 60 more may be seated along the church aisles if necessary. The destroyed church had a seating capacity of 600.

The new church will be of brick construction and the rearranged chapels will be of brick veneer. The old church was a wooden building. A chancel wll be built in the front of the church and will be 20 feet deep.

There will be rooms for the Sunday School departments, a woman's parlor, a kitchen and men's room. The main auditorium will have a slate roof. The interior of the church will have columns four feet from the church sides to support an arched ceiling.

A large vestibule will be built in back of the pews. It will be the fifth church building since Colonial times. The style is of the same period as the Town Hall. The church was designed by Dr. Hobart Upjohn of New York City, a national authority on church building.

A third meeting house was erected in 1837 on the present site. This one was destroyed by fire on December 26, 1866. A fourth meeting house was erected on the same site within a year and was completed in 1867. The steeple was blown off by a gale in 1881 and was restored at once.

The hurricane on September 21, 1938 wrecked the last church. A spectator related that the steeple was lifted from the church and was dropped on the ridge leaving the church almost a complete wreck. A special committee was named soon after the catastrophe to plan for the future of the church.

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An architects rendering of what the new Ada First United Methodist Church will look like. Construction on the project is expected to begin on March 17 and continue until February, 2015. Enlarge Published: Tuesday, 2/25/2014 - Updated: 18 hours ago

BY VANESSA McCRAY BLADE STAFF WRITER

ADA, Ohio A new Ada First United Methodist Church soon will rise from the ashes where the congregations 113-year-old church burned in 2012.

Two years after a March, 2012, fire destroyed the church at the corner of North Main Street and Highland Avenue, construction will begin on its replacement, a two-story, brick-and-stone building designed with nods to both the past and future.

Weather permitting, work is scheduled to begin March 17 on the new church. A groundbreaking ceremony is planned for noon March 30, and both church and community members are invited. Construction is scheduled to end in February, 2015.

Robert McCurdy, chairman of the churchs building committee, said specific details remain to be worked out, but parishioners would like to worship in the new building by the fires third anniversary.

The decision to rebuild on the same site as the old church, located at one end of the Hardin County villages downtown area, was welcomed by those outside the 300-member congregation as well.

We hear that all the time from townspeople, Oh, Im so happy that the church is going back there, Mr. McCurdy said.

The congregation still needs to raise $300,000 to $400,000 for the $6 million building project, to be paid for with contributions from church members, donations from other churches and supporters, and insurance proceeds.

The 25,000-square-foot building features a second-floor sanctuary that will seat 240 people and a commercial kitchen and fellowship hall on the first floor. Theres also room for childrens ministry and Christian education programs.

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OAKDALE (CBS13) A church volunteers death on a nature trail in Oakdale has fellow churchgoers yearning for answers in a suspected homicide.

Juan Calvillos body was found on a trail in a nature area in what deputies are calling a homicide, though they have no motive for the killing.

Construction crews were busy working to transform a church basement into a Sunday school room. But the man who volunteered to lead the project wasnt there.

They realized there was a problem when Calvillo didnt show up for the first day of construction. The last time anyone at the church saw the father of five was during a potluck.

A trio of fishermen made the gruesome discovery days later when they came across his body on a nature trail.

Deputies say Calvillo had been shot to death in a possible murder.

With no motive and no arrest in sight, church leaders are trying to make sense of the loss, and are hopeful closure comes soon.

The church plans on helping with Calvillos funeral.

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MORGAN COUNTY More than a decade of dreams, plans and prayers have paid off for the members of The Sanctuary church.

The new building for which they had been raising money and saving up is now a reality on The Sanctuary campus west of Fort Morgan along Highway 34.

"The big push was to get in by Christmas," Pastor Gary Meadows said. "We weren't sure we'd make it after it blew down, but we made it."

Construction suffered a pretty big setback last summer, when extremely high winds one day in August literally blew down the building's wooden frame.

But the contractors and volunteers got it built back up, and work continued to get the building ready for a big church celebration at Christmas, Meadows said.

"All the contractors did excellent work," he said. "A lot of people gave generous donations of time and materials."

Their efforts are more than just what shows in the final product, though. Some of their prayers and thoughts became part of the building's structure, Meadows said.

"As this building was erected, we had folks write scripture on the studs, and on the boards under the carpet," he explained.

Parts of the building that were finished earlier were rented out at times, including to Centennial Mental Health Centers for a training. Among those who went to that was a grieving grandfather whose baby grandchild had been stillborn. Meadows said he wrote a long Hebrew verse on the door frame for the cry room in the back of the new church's main auditorium.

"Now, he called me back and they will be back for another training," Meadows said. "He wants to furnish the cry room."

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TAMPA Of all the good works that churches do day in and day out, at home and in other countries there is one area where many fall short:

Reaching out to those with special needs.

According a recent Barna Group study, nearly 10 million families and caregivers lack the support they need from their local church.

You cant fault the church entirely for this. It takes money, knowledge, resources, commitment, space and education to deal with the wide spectrum of disabilities out there.

But, occasionally, a church gets lucky. An angel like Eileen Hafer comes along.

Hafer is a member of Palma Ceia United Methodist Church. With 17 years experience as an Exceptional Student Education specialist with Hillsborough County Schools, she has a passion for this population. She understands that every person with mental or physical disabilities has individual needs and challenges; she knows how parents must make dramatic life changes as caregivers.

So when she left teaching to be a stay-at-home mom, Hafer wanted to devote her time to a project that involved her faith and her professional background.

Lucky for her, she belongs to a church that encourages its members to do just that.

I went to my pastor with the idea, and he said, Go for it. He gave me the blessing I needed to get started, she says of the Rev. Bruce Toms.

That blessing, however, didnt come with a budget.

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Christchurch congregations first visit to church construction site at Oakfield Drive on Summer 1999 (Video captured from VHS 2014)

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