The kids call it “the little prayer room.” I dropped to my knees on the padded rail and tearfully shared it all. I emptied myself. And He took it all. I texted a friend as I left the room: “I always feel better after praying in there.”
Our church secretary, Pam Honeychurch, recently received a note with a postcard enclosed from a woman named Diana from Indiana. She thought our church would like to have the postcard for our history files. The postcard was originally mailed to young brothers, Robert and John McCann of Hill Street, Sewickley, in December 1918. The big question was, who is Rev. Dr. Robert Emory Beetham?
This article was originally published in the church newsletter in 1996 after the new time capsule was laid.
This article was originally published in the church newsletter after the restoration of the clock tower was completed in 1996 and highlights the event of the day the clock tower was rededicated and a new time capsule was laid.
The Revised Common Lectionary is a lectionary of readings from the Bible for use in Protestant Christian worship, providing for the liturgical year with its pattern of observances of festivals and seasons.
Information on the Clock Tower was provided by Paul Collier, former church historian
Why is our fellowship hall called the “Simpson Room”?
As Sewickley Methodist Episcopal Church celebrated the 60th Anniversary of its incorporation and the 75th Anniversary of its organization on Sunday, November 17, 1912, they reflected on the recent history of the church. Here is a review of 1909 through 1912.
As Sewickley Methodist Episcopal Church celebrated the 60th Anniversary of its incorporation and the 75th Anniversary of its organization on Sunday, November 17, 1912, they reflected on the recent history of the church.
The below text was read at the celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the incorporation of the Sewickley Methodist Episcopal Church, Sewickley, PA, and the 75th Anniversary of its organization on Sunday, November 17, 1912.
1837 - 1839 Itinerant ministers & Society leaders
1839 - 1840 John White & Joseph Wright
1840 - 1841 Joshua Monroe & John White
1841 - 1842 Peter M. McGowan & Hosea McCall
1842 - 1843 Hosea McCall
1843 - 1844 David Sharp & John Huston
1844 - 1845 David Sharp & William Page Blackburn
1845 - 1846 Warner Long & John W. Baker
1846 - 1847 John L. Williams
1848 - 1849 Benjamin F. Sawhill
1849 - 1850 J. K. Miller
1850 - 1851 George W. Cranage & Benjamin F. Sawhill
1851 - 1852 Robert Finley Hopkins & Joseph Horner
1852 - 1853 Albert G. Williams & William Page Blackburn
1853 - 1854 Isaac P. Saddler & William L. N. Gilmore
1854 - 1855 H.D. Fisher & Artemus E. Ward
1855 - 1856 Lancelot Robertson Beacom & Sylvester Burt
1856 - 1857 Lancelot Robertson Beacom & Francis D. Fast
1857 - 1858 John C. Brown & George Crooks
1858 - 1860 David A. McCready
1860 - 1862 H. W. Baker
1862 - 1864 Samuel Y . Kennedy
1864 - 1867 William H. Locke
1867 - 1869 Joseph Horner
1869 - 1872 Charles A. Holmes
1872 - 1875 James R. Mills
1875 - 1877 Asbury L. Petty
1877 - 1879 William B. Watkins
1879 - 1882 William Lynch
1882 - 1885 Milton J. Sleppy
1885 - 1887 Joseph W. Miles
1887 - 1888 Thomas H. Woodring
1888 - 1891 James S. Bracken
1891 - 1896 Henry L. Chapman
1896 - 1904 John J. Hill
1904 - 1907 George D. Crissman
1907 - 1910 Appleton Bash
1910 - 1913 Daniel L. Marsh
1913 - 1914 Jo Warren Gillespie Fast
1914 - 1918 Robert Emory Beetham
1918 - 1919 David Flanigan
1919 - 1922 Charles William Tinsley
1922 - 1923 Jacob Simpson Payton
1923 - 1928 Dwight Lewis Myers
1928 - 1933 Henry A. Welday
1933 - 1935 James Vernon Wright
1935 - 1938 Homer David Whitfield
1938 - 1943 Homer Nelson Clark
1943 - 1945 William M. Baumgartner
1945 - 1954 Charles Albert Tracey
1954 - 1962 Lawrence S. Elliott
1962 - 1/1963 William Leroy Young (Returned to Lay Work)
2/1963 - 1966 Donald Richard Brown
1966 - 1969 Howard Morrow Pape
1969 - 1975 Ormer Grier Shindledecker
1975 - 1982 Jackson Alexander Gabany
1982 - 1986 Robert William Large
1986 - 1997 Myles Thomas Bradley
1997 - 2006 Barry Lamont Lewis
2006 - 2020 Russel William Shuluga
2020 - Hannah Marie Loughman