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Bishop Conducts'Home Coming AtLynnwood Ch.Grace M r m o r i a 1 Episcopal I Church at Lynnwood celebrated !its 70th anmver-arv Sunday with IIorr° Comiiv: Dav at wlvch the Pt. Rev Robert F. Gibson. D.D., of Richmond bishon coadjutor of the Diocese of Virginia, dedicatedfhe new Parish House and conducted Confirmation rites for 23 new communicants.It was an all-dav affair, with180 people present at the morning service which started at 11. the mid-day basket lunch, and the afternoon exercises at 2 30Morn in a service was conduct,dhv the Lvnnwood Parish rector,the Rev F P Thornton, with theseimon by Bishop Gibson, and the rite of confirmation conduced bvthe Bishop for 23 men. women, bovs and girls.Basket luncheons were served under the trees of the church’s picnic grounds, on ten new tables with benches attached, recently constructed by men of the congregation.A record of the dav was made in motion pictures b” .James F. Lee and John D Gitchell, ir of Harrisonburg, including pictures of the church’s youngest member. Susan Raines five-mont Ir-o'd riau-htci of M: and Mrs. Robert Lee Raines She, her fve-vear-old brothei Robert I.ee Raines jr.. and nor parents were all baptised into the church last Thursdaynieht.And pictures were taken of Hie chut eld- oldest communicant. Mrs Sallt Belle Morris of Lynnwood, 84 who was confirmed in 1887 when 17 years old. and has been a communicant for 67 years Sing in:1 of old-fashioned hymns bv the congregation and Hie Mill Creek Church of the BrethrenQu'rtct opened fhe exercises at 2 30.The P‘ Ward McCabe ree-tor of F m m a n u e 1 Episcopal iChurch. Hanusonbtirg outlined the h storv of the Lvnnwood church since its founding 70 years | ago. |M: ■ S mir.t’l H Lewis sr of Lvnnwood if'eoui. ed renvmscen- i ices of the chut cl md the Rev. t Lewis Gibbs D D . rector of Emmanuel Cl itch n S'aunton.told chi’dhood mcmor.es of L1 nn-wood wiiere hr maternal erand-narents In eel inritwhere he visitedfo; mar.v summersBishop Gibson recently returned f: itrt the World Council ofChmchcs a' Evanston 111. andthe Ar■■ebear Convention at Min neapolis. sooke interestin'’v ofhis exw ence at these religiousgatherings.The B vhon then dedicated four bronze li^htne fixtures in the shape of Gothic lanterns suspended from the apex of the church’s nave The f ? w a • g.vcn bv Mrand Mn- John Amos Morris sa memorial to their family; the 'cnnd a' * memorial to Mi and M ' R chud M'v’is’ ftm:'' 'lie third as a memo' to the f imi'v | of Mrs Samuel H Lewis sr the fourth is a ■ ft of the conrega-t oi lt;; a memorial to Miss Saliv I elt; s and M - F'• rnr Wheatw ho were devoted workers for th° church when it was founded 70 years ago.Bishop Gibson s I so dedicatedthe r.ew Pm nh House -that is, i a parish home now attached to the church and a- rood as new It was an old nembv school house, which men mcmbeis of the congregation moved to its present position adjoining the church andrepaired, renovated and repaintedit inside and out.
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Daily News-Record
Harrisonburg, Virginia, US
Tue, Aug 24, 1954
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