Showing posts with label Religion Grace Lutheran Ch history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Religion Grace Lutheran Ch history. Show all posts

Monday, October 27, 2014

Newly-renovated sanctuary at Grace Lutheran Church

Newly-renovated sanctuary at Grace Lutheran Church



On September 10, 2014, just before the September 14, 2014 rededication of the newly-renovated sanctuary at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church at 21 Carroll Street, Westminster, MD; Bishop Arthur Pease sent me a great picture of the sanctuary…

My article appears in both the Baltimore Sun and the Carroll County Times. Click on the link here to go to the article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archives-0907-20140908,0,2461221.story “Celebrating Grace Lutheran Church's growth and history in Westminster.”

Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
21 Carroll Street
Westminster, MD 21158
(410) 848-7020

The Reverend Kevin Clementson, Senior Pastor
The Reverend Martha Clementson, Senior Pastor

http://www.gracelc.org/ … to go to the website of: Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, 21 Carroll Street, Westminster, MD 21158, (410) 848-7020, The Reverend Kevin Clementson, Senior Pastor, The Reverend Martha Clementson, Senior Pastor, http://www.gracelc.org/

Clementson Rev Kevin
Rev. Kevin Clementson
kclementson@gracelc.org
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
21 Carroll Street
Westminster, MD 21158
(410) 848-7020

Clementson Rev Martha
Rev. Martha Clementson
mclementson@gracelc.org
Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church
21 Carroll Street
Westminster, MD 21158
(410) 848-7020

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Monday, December 30, 2013

Westminster Maryland Online: January 1, 1993 Carroll Co. Times: New Year’s Day ...

Westminster Maryland Online: January 1, 1993 Carroll Co. Times: New Year’s Day ...: January 1, 1993 Carroll Co. Times: New Year’s Day services at Grace Lutheran Church RELIGION NOTES CARROLL COUNTY TIMES Friday...


January 1, 1993 Carroll Co. Times: New Year’s Day services
at Grace Lutheran Church

RELIGION NOTES

CARROLL COUNTY TIMES Friday, January 1, 1993 Page A8

Grace Lutheran

Grace Lutheran Church will have worship services at 8, 9:30
and 11 a.m. Holy Communion will be at all three services.  Preaching this Sunday will be the Rev.
Eckhardt. The Youth Choir will sing at the 8 a.m. service. The Chancel Choir
will sing at 11 a.m.

Sunday school will be at 9:30 a.m. On Wednesday the Brown
Bag Bible Study group will meet at noon.

Grace Lutheran Church is at 21 Carroll St. Pastors are the
Rev. Frederick P. Eckhardt, the Rev. Connie S. Miller and the Rev. L. Stanley
Whitson.

For more information about the church activities, call the
church office at 848-7020 or 876-3634. Remember our Dial-A-Prayer at 848-2113.




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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

Tumblr: Kevin Dayhoff Banana Stems www.kevindayhoff.tumblr.com/
Smurfs: http://babylonfluckjudd.blogspot.com/
Google profile: https://profiles.google.com/kevindayhoff/

E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/

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Friday, December 6, 2013

January 1, 1993 Carroll Co. Times: New Year’s Day services at Grace Lutheran Church

January 1, 1993 Carroll Co. Times: New Year’s Day services at Grace Lutheran Church

RELIGION NOTES

CARROLL COUNTY TIMES Friday, January 1, 1993 Page A8

Grace Lutheran

Grace Lutheran Church will have worship services at 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Holy Communion will be at all three services.  Preaching this Sunday will be the Rev. Eckhardt. The Youth Choir will sing at the 8 a.m. service. The Chancel Choir will sing at 11 a.m.

Sunday school will be at 9:30 a.m. On Wednesday the Brown Bag Bible Study group will meet at noon.

Grace Lutheran Church is at 21 Carroll St. Pastors are the Rev. Frederick P. Eckhardt, the Rev. Connie S. Miller and the Rev. L. Stanley Whitson.

For more information about the church activities, call the church office at 848-7020 or 876-3634. Remember our Dial-A-Prayer at 848-2113.




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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
Kevin Dayhoff's The New Bedford Herald: http://kbetrue.livejournal.com/ = www.newbedfordherald.net

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E-mail: kevindayhoff(at)gmail.com
My http://www.explorecarroll.com/ columns appear in the copy of the Baltimore Sunday Sun that is distributed in Carroll County: https://subscribe.baltsun.com/Circulation/
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Community support for churches after disasters are Carroll tradition [Column]

Community support for churches after disasters are Carroll tradition [Column]

Community support for churches, such as @lazaruschurch, after disasters #CarrollCounty #history tradition [Column] #LazarusChurch http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/manchester-lineboro/ph-ce-eagle-archives-1208-20131204,0,5680175.story

By Kevin E. Dayhoff, 5:12 p.m. EST, December 4, 2013


On the Mason-Dixon Line in northern Carroll County, the historic town of Lineboro was awakened at 4:11 a.m. on Tuesday when the first alarm rang out that there was a fire in the 160-year-old Lazarus United Church of Christ and Lutheran Union Church. Two alarms and two hours later, the fire was declared under control.

In spite of the efforts of approximately 60 firefighters from Carroll and Baltimore counties and York County, Pa., the historic structure was a total loss.

According to research by historians Joe Getty and Mary Ann Ashcraft for the Historical Society of Carroll County, "Carroll County was strongly influenced by German Baptists, also known as Dunkards and later as Church of the Brethren, and by two denominations which worked closely together during those early years — Lutheran and Reformed (now known as United Church of Christ.)

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Carroll has a history of natural disasters — snowstorms, floods, tornadoes, fires — that threaten our safety, health and welfare. Too often, these natural disasters find a church.

On June 19, 1952, a storm destroyed the St. John's Roman Catholic Church steeple on Main Street in Westminster.

On Feb. 19, 1893, a tornado destroyed the steeple at St. Paul's United Church of Christ at the corner of Green Street and Bond.

On April 9 and 10, 1883, an entire section of Westminster, from John Street to Carroll Street to Main Street, burned to the ground. All that was left of Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church at 21 Carroll Street was a brick shell.

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An article in the Baltimore Sun last Tuesday by Blair Ames and Carrie Wells reported, “The congregation itself dates to 1853, and was founded by members of Zion's Church in Manchester… poor roads had made the five-mile route from Lineboro to Manchester impassable for several months each year, so the faithful decided to build their own church.

“According to a 1939 Sun article, the original sanctuary was built through donation pledges from members — the largest recorded was $120 and the smallest ‘121/2 cents.’”

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Monday, December 2, 2013

1977 Leadership and Church Council of Grace Lutheran Church in Westminster MD


GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH
Westminster, Maryland

The Rev.  Frederick P. Eckhardt, D .D. Pastor
Home Phone 848-3747; Office Phones 848-7020 & 876-3634
The Rev. Elwood S. Falkenstein, D.D., Pastor Emeritus
Mrs. E. Morgan Leister, Organist-Choir Director
Mrs. James R.  Langdon II, Assistant Organist-Choir Director
Miss Mary Frances Wampler, Office Secretary
Mrs. A. Lee Whitenton, Assistant Secretary
Mr. Carroll N. Riffle, Sexton
Office Phones: 876-3634, 848-7020
Dial-A-Prayer Telephone 848-2113

CHURCH COUNCIL MEMBERS 1977

PRESIDENT Herbert G. Mathias, Jr.
VICE PRESIDENT David R. Bare
SECRETARY Kathryn M. Anders
TREASURER C. David Starner
IMPROVEMENT FD.  TREAS. Curtis G. Reaves
PARLIAMENTARIAN Robert T. Scott
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
Chairman John P. Myers
Assistant Virginia L. Taylor
Assistant-Scouting Earl B. Wiles
EVANGELISM 
Chairman Stephen A. Lerda
Assistant Cornelia C. Kroh
FINANCE. CHM. David R. Bare
INVESTMENT, CHM. Daniel H. Young
PROPERTY, CHM. Ralph E.  Culler
SOCIAL. MINISTRY, CHM. Burton W. Lee
STEWARDSHIP, CHM. Marianna P. Conover
WORSHIP & MUSIC Chairman James R. Myers
Assistant-Ushering E. Lee Baltzell
Assistant Eileen D. Welsh
SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT SheiIa Buttner

"A Place Where You Feel At Home with God"
Visitors and friends are invited to unite with the family of Grace church

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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
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