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A historical image of the church.

By Patrick D. Rosso, Boston.com Staff

The red brick Pilgrim Church in Dorchester has been accepted onto the National Register of Historic Places, permanently recognizing its significance and opening it up to funding sources specifically designed for historic structures.

Construction of the church, at 540 Columbia Road. in Uphams Corner, began in 1890. It was designed by Stephen Carpenter Earle, who also designed the University of Massachusetts Amhersts Old Chapel and Memorial Hall in Canton, among a number of other notable structures.

Its really great that the federal government is saying that a building in Dorchester is important to the nation, said John Odams, the reverend of the Pilgrim Trinitarian Congregational Church. Its an important building that should be preserved. The registration will hopefully open it up to a lot more funding sources.

Highlighted for its age, design, and architect, Odams said the church, which still has regular services, is a marker for when the neighborhood of Dorchester switched from a rural community to suburban neighborhood of Boston.

When he [Stephen Carpenter Earle] began his work in Dorchester it was just becoming a street carriage suburb of Boston, Odams said. What would have been considered a downtown church was being built right in the suburbs, which was unusual for the time.

Although the announcement is exciting for the congregation of 20 that call the church home, Odams said its biggest impact will be helping raise money for its restoration.

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This sealed copper box, 10 inches long by 8 inches wide by 8 inches tall, was discovered at a construction site in Berkeley last week. Photo: Bill Schrader Jr.

A construction crew taking its first steps to prepare an old community church for demolitiondiscovered a time capsule from 1948 hidden inside the wall behind the church cornerstone last week.

The sealed copper box initially stumped its finders, said Scott Allen, site superintendent at 2024 Durant Ave., the location where anew apartment housing development calledThe Durantis slated to be built.

Last Monday morning, Jan. 13, at about 11 oclock, Allen said the crew was just beginning work on the first day of the project to demolish the old church, Durant Avenue Presbyterian. Developer Bill Schrader Jr. had given firm instructions to remove the church cornerstone, which includes the buildings name and construction date, to save the granite marker for inclusion on the new project site.

Wewanted to get that out and protect it and keep it safe so we didnt have any complications later, said Allen, who works for Sacramento-based Brown Construction. When we removed it, there was a copper box on the back. Wewent to knock it off, or pull it off, and it wouldnt move.

At first, everyone was perplexed. The box was soldered shut, and had no visible damage.

Allen said no one was really sure what the box was or what to do with it, when he suddenly remembered hed seen something similar once before during a demolition project in New Zealand. Allen said a time capsule had been found on the back of that buildings cornerstone. But he said he hadnt seen anything like it stateside during his 12 years in construction.

He told the group what he thought, and there was an immediate reaction.

Everybody was excited from myself to Bill Schrader to the building inspector to the guys, the demolition crew that was there, said Allen. Most of these people had never seen this before. It came as a shock to most of them.

Removing the name plate for the church, to the left of the doorway, was the first step in the process. Photo: Scott Allen

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Avoca, Luzerne County -- A demolition crew made serious progress Monday dismantling something that stood for more than a century in Avoca. Chunk by chunk, Pioneer Construction tore down the old Ss. Peter & Paul Church at Main and Vine Streets. "Another church gone," said Bob Ryzner of Duryea. He was married in Ss. Peter & Paul Church in 1983. He wanted one last look at the Avoca landmark before it was all gone. "It's sad to see it go but I guess that's today's way of things. Knock 'em down instead of fixing them up."

The Diocese of Scranton closed Ss. Peter & Paul in October 2011 and sold it to the borough of Avoca for $144,000. Borough council decided it was cost prohibitive to renovate the building so decided to demolish it and build a new municipal building on the church grounds. "You know, I think it's wonderful in the name of progress that it's going to be a municipal building. I'm sad that we weren't able to save the structure," said Jeff Romanecz who lives next door to the church in the parish's former rectory building which he bought last year. He co-write a book about the church's history for its centennial celebration in 2009. "My great-grandfather was one of the founders of the parish and actually built this building," said Mr. Romanecz. "The family's been at the house all morning stopping by, taking pictures and you know shedding some tears." He and others hoped the former house of worship could be used in some capacity. "If it was saved, I hope it would be a community center or a theater. You know if somebody came commercially, a restaurant," said Mr. Romanecz. Mr. Ryzner added, "I would have hoped it would have been kept and renovated into a borough building and you know at least kept the old look."

Even though the construction crew waited until Monday to carry out the bulk of demolition, some removal work was done in advance. The borough salvaged the church's granite steps and a bell from the church tower. It's even cleaning up some bricks to give away to former parishioners at a later date. But for some, that's little consolation. "You never would have thought years ago this was going to happen but here it is and it's happening," said Mr. Ryzner.

Demolition on the church should be completed Tuesday morning with all of the debris removed by the end of the week. Avoca borough hopes to begin construction of its new municipal building at the site this spring.

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Christian Life Assembly choir members sing during the service on Sunday morning in the newly finished wing of the church.Melissa Evanko/Pocono Record

January 20, 2014

Christian Life Assembly first began holding services at its church in Stroud Township in December 1983. On Sunday, just over 30 years later, members gathered to dedicate a fully renovated, expanded church that displays how much the congregation has grown since then.

More than 300 people sat comfortably in the sanctuary to celebrate those involved in the construction of the new church addition that took five years, and those who built the congregation membership over the last 30-plus years.

"Because you have been faithful, God has brought you to this point. But I can tell you, we would never be at this point unless there were others who laid the groundwork before us," said Lead Pastor Craig Johnson.

Helping to draw a link between the church's history and its next chapter were two longtime leaders former Lead Pastor John Puleo and former Associate Pastor Tim Holmes.

Holmes told congregants about his first visit to a much smaller Christian Life Assembly in 1985. He said even at that point, the church's pastor was talking construction.

"He told me, 'Tim, where do you think we can add onto this church?'" Holmes recalled.

Since then it seems the church has done nothing but grow, both in size and membership. Holmes, a longtime church board member, said each year the board had some kind of construction project in mind.

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Afterforcing the reversal of Ukraine's political course and offering President Yanukovych a financial and economic bailout last year, Russia is apparently now planning to intervene directly in Ukraines church affairs.

The events surrounding the EuroMaidan over the last sixty days have shown just how important the church remains to Ukrainians. This concerns primarily the three main confessions that trace their roots to the Kyiv Metropolitanate created by the Patriarchate of Constantinople during the times of Prince Volodymyr the Great: the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC KP), the Ukrainian Orthodox Church subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church (UGCC), which remains in union with the Pope of Rome.

The Kremlin plans to suborn Ukraine politically, economically and culturally. Support for separatist movements, coupled with the December 2013 economic accords signed in Moscow, form part of the first two pillars of this strategy. As a serious instrument to advance Russian political interests in Ukraine, the Moscow Patriarchate is indispensable to the construction of the third pillar.

The leader of the UOC MP, Metropolitan Volodymyr, is in grave health; uncharachacteristically he was absent from any Christmas-related celebrations this year, even in the hospital.

Metropolitan Volodymyr, an ethnic Ukrainian, has maintained a measure of balance of power within the UOC MP and allowed the church to retain relative independence from Moscow. His successor will determine whether this church continues on its Ukrainian path, or will fall into complete dependency on Russia, fulfilling the dreams of the Patriarch of Moscow, Kirill, and the Kremlin.

There are several potential candidates among the church's bishops to replace Metropolitan Volodymyr. Most often mentioned as a successor is Metropolitan Antoniy (Pakanych), but the candidacies of metropolitans Onufriy of Bukovyna, and Ilarion from Donetsk are also under discussion.

However, none of these hierarchs enjoy Moscows full trust. Therefore, since 2011 there is a plan to appoint the head of the UOC MP from Moscow, in particular, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev), a Russian citizen, the Russian Orthodox Churchs (ROC) chief diplomat and Patriarch Kirills closest adviser.

An appointment like this would be akin to President Vladimir Putin sending someone from his inner circle to run Ukraine's economy as prime minister.

To implement this strategy, Patriarch Kirill might come to the council that elects the new Metropolitan of Kyiv, where either he or his loyal bishops in Ukraine will propose to elect Hilarion (Alfeev). To ensure the desired result, the voting procedure will be made open and not by secret ballot.

This appears to be a plausible scenario, especially after we witnessed how, under Kremlin pressure, Ukraine's leadership changed its political orientation on the eve of signing a civilizational pact with the European Union.

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The scaffolding that has earned the All Saints church in Dorchester the nickname the Green Monster of Peabody Square could soon be a thing of the past as construction crews prepare to finish up renovations to the churchs exterior.

Since the beginning of summer crews with Consigli Construction have been working diligently on the multi-million dollar restoration of the 121-year-old church. The second phase of the project, expected to begin in January 2014, will include interior repairs.

Although the restoration of the church is exciting for its 350 odd parishioners, the detail crews are putting into the project has also generated a lot of interest outside of the church community, according to Jeffery Gonyeau, a parishioner at the church who is providing technical support for the project.

You really dont find many groups that go to this length during a restoration project, said Gonyeau. In the preservation world this has gotten a lot of attention and weve even led tours of the work. It shows that these high level preservation efforts can and should happen in all of Bostons neighborhoods.

From the use of slate and copper, to the painstaking process of removing rotting masonry and replacing it, Gonyeau said crews are sticking with historical materials and making sure the church doesnt lose any of its character. The property is also of particular interest for architecture buffs because it was the first building designed by Ralph Adams Cram, the man behind the Sagamore Bridge and West Point.

In some sense it [the churchs restoration] kind of completes the work that has been taking place in Peabody Square area, said Gonyeau. From the Carruth Building to Ashmont Station a lot of work has gone into the area and this is part of that revitalization.

The church itself may have a long history in the neighborhood, but the project promises to bring even more history to the community, as organizers prepare to install an 84-year-old organ manufactured by Ernest Skinner, once a resident of Dorchester.

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By DONNA WEAVER The Press of Atlantic City

LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - Since Hurricane Sandy, the congregation at St. Theresa's Roman Catholic Church has thinned because so many people never returned to their storm-damaged homes.

The church is doing everything it can to stay financially stable and keep its doors open. Inside the church - built in 2006 - some of the lights have been shut off because it is too expensive to operate them.

"The Little Egg Harbor-Tuckerton area was forgotten during Sandy, which speaks so highly of the community here. People pulled together and helped people," the Rev. K. Michael "Mick" Lambeth told The Press of Atlantic City (http://bit.ly/1eIP27u).

Similar to the days immediately following Sandy, the residents and church staff continue to pull together, he said.

"Even though we had no power the very next morning after the storm, we were here. People came forward to help, asking, 'What can I do?'" parish coordinator Cathy Mazanek said.

The aftermath of Sandy has not been kind to the township's residents or to St. Theresa's, Lambeth said. Each day, some of the residents who have returned to their homes visit St. Theresa's for some form of assistance.

Neither the township nor the state has a definitive number of how many local people did not return home after Sandy, but Lambeth said the proof is glaring during Sunday Mass.

Lambeth estimates the church lost about 1,000 families from the congregation. Before the storm, the church had about 5,000 year-round and summer families. In the weeks after the storm, the church lost about $120,000 in revenue, and finances have not improved since then.

Between the mortgage and other expenses each month, it costs about $60,000 to operate the church, Lambeth said. Before Sandy, parishioners gave about $13,000 per week, Lambeth said. That number dipped after the storm to $8,000 per month at its lowest.

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ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY GREEK ORTHODOX

Assumption of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church, 801 Montecito, will sell gyro sandwiches for pickup on Feb. 2. Call 325-653-6074 and order ahead for quick pickup or stop by. We will be serving from noon until kickoff approximately 5:30 p.m.

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BELMORE BAPTIST

Belmore Baptist Church, 1214 S. Bell St., The Baptist Men will meet at 8 a.m. Sunday for breakfast and a program. Julie Green, Tom Green County jail chaplain, will speak.

Childrens Church for age 4 through 5th grad will meet at 10:50 a.m. Sunday in the fellowship hall.

The pastors Bible class and sanctuary choir rehearsal both will meet at 5 p.m. Sunday.

Prayer for Belaire School will meet at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in the church office.

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