Joy & Relief 2 Years, 2 Months, 28 Days After Inferno, A New Church By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD Where once stood a towering, Romanesque-in-miniature brick sanctuary, now resides a little white country church, its interior “starkly beautiful,” as John Wesley would want it. “When I met with the committees, they were insistent that they wanted a little country church,” said Jim Hundt, the architect who designed the new Milford United Methodist Building. “They wanted it to…
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REJOICE! As Milford United Methodist Opens ‘All The People’ – SRO – ‘Say Amen’ Sounds of song, inspiration and prayer filled the brand new sanctuary to standing-room-only at the rebuilt Milford Methodist Church during this morning’s service, “two years, two months and twenty-eight days” after the March 12, 2017, arson that destroyed the original building. Above, Pastor Sylvia Barrett on guitar, leads the congregation in “And All The People Said Amen,” with help from Music Director Ron Johnson on organ…
OPEN HOUSE 3-6 SATURDAY At Covenant Service, Congregation Opens Door On New Chapter The Milford Methodist Church Building Committee gathers this evening after a Covenant Service, where the congregation recommitted itself to a new chapter in the local church’s 150-year history. Front row, from left, are Al Dubreuil, Emily Mattison-Welsh, Pastor Sylvia Barrett, Lola Rathbone, committee chair, Tom Rathbone and Sandy Andrews; top row, from left, state Sen. Jim Seward, Bill Triolo, Russell Freer and David Meade. Inset, Pastor Sylvia,…
Stained-Glass Window Back In Place Of Honor ‘Christ At Gethsemane’ Rescued After Raging Fire Destroyed Milford Church Pastor Sylvia Barrett surveys the nearly complete sanctuary – “starkly beautiful,” as Methodism’s founder John Wesley preferred – inside the new Milford Methodist Church this morning as stained-glass restorer Doug Hallberg of Oneonta reinstalls “Christ at Gethsemane,” which was almost destroyed Sunday, March 12, 2017, when the 1929 landmark on Route 28 was destroyed in an arson fire. Construction began on the new…
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