[Becster]

Five years ago our church (founded in 1923) closed. We were in a beautiful old building with too many bills, too little money, and an aging congregation. So we closed the doors and merged with another Methodist church just north of us. We packed things into storage and that's where most of it has remained since then, but this morning we had a cleanup day at the 'new' church. We're preparing to gut our very old two story education building and use funds from the sale of my old church to completely renovate it.

Several of the rooms upstairs were where we stored things after the move, and included were boxes upon boxes of loose photos and albums dating back to the 1940's, a few of them older. There are several photos of the original building that was demolished well before I was born. I've been scanning and scanning, and just wallowing in the fun!


I knew you all could relate.

[B&K Mom]

What a wonderful find! Enjoy the fun. What a gift to have all those photos to keep the history of your congregation alive. WOO HOO!

[PBarnes]

That sounds wonderful, Becky! I'm sure your efforts will be appreciated by generations of members to come.

[CreativeSparkle]

That's really neat! Maybe you could submit some of the images to the local newspaper to announce the renovation.

[tiza126]

What a treasure!

[SandiC.]

What a treasure!

[Sara Arell]

That's awesome and sounds like fun Becky....did you have your Flip Pal with you when you made this discovery?

[mbc72]

What a neat find!! Sounds like you'll be busy.

[Smiles]

how fun!

[ArizonaAngel]

That is wonderful! Enjoy the journey and scrap scrap scrap!

[MariJ]

Wow.. So neat to find such treasures.

[CRS]

How fun! I'm in a similar mood today after visiting the family and seeing all the old photos!

[Laurel Lakey]

Wow, that's awesome! What great finds.

[Becster]

Sara Arell, on 25 June 2011 - 01:25 PM, said:

That's awesome and sounds like fun Becky....did you have your Flip Pal with you when you made this discovery?

No, but I was allowed (lol) to bring home one box at a time and I've been scanning all afternoon! DH said, "Aww come on! I just got the dining room table back!"

[Becster]

Not ready to scrap yet, but I uploaded a bunch of pics and began tagging church friends. You can see them here:

Rader Memorial UMC Archive

[Sara Arell]

Becster, on 25 June 2011 - 07:53 PM, said:

Sara Arell, on 25 June 2011 - 01:25 PM, said:

That's awesome and sounds like fun Becky....did you have your Flip Pal with you when you made this discovery?

No, but I was allowed (lol) to bring home one box at a time and I've been scanning all afternoon! DH said, "Aww come on! I just got the dining room table back!"

HA! The dining room table thing! Mine is covered right now - if I don't cover it with something, then Rich does! We are always complaining to each other about that too! Too funny!