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 Knox Presbyterian Church celebrates 75 - Vernon, BC Posted by:  T0SHEA
N 50° 15.922 W 119° 17.083
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The history of the Presbyterian Church in Vernon is longer than that of any other church in Vernon, the first church having been dedicated on February 21st, 1892. Knox Presbyterian was formed in 1937 and this church built in 1989.
Waymark Code: WMN79T
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 01/10/2015
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With Church Union in Canada in 1925, many communities no longer had a Presbyterian Church, as they became churches of the United Church of Canada. Many towns, however, formed new Presbyterian Churches later. Such was the case in Vernon when in 1937 the present Knox Presbyterian congregation was formed. In 2012 the church, then in its third building, celebrated its 75th birthday.
Naturally, the Vernon Morning Star was there to record and publish the story of the event. One may read it below.
Knox Presbyterian Church celebrates 75
by Contributed - Vernon Morning Star
posted Oct 24, 2012 at 1:00 AM
The congregation of Knox Presbyterian Church acknowledged its 75th birthday Oct. 14 along with the birthdays of all its members.
There was a table with a birthday cake for each month of the year in the Fellowship Hall following the service, with members gathering for cake around the table of their birth month. This has become an annual event in October as a way to recognize that it was in October of 1937 that the second Presbyterian congregation in Vernon began.
Knox Presbyterian was formed to replace St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church which had become part of the United Church in 1925.
The small congregation of 15 to 20 people met each Sunday in what is now the Elks’ Hall. Minister was the Reverend G. Sidney Barber, who also was minister to the Presbyterian congregations in Armstrong and Salmon Arm. Barber, who lived in Armstrong, held a worship service there on Sunday morning, drove to Salmon Arm to hold a service at 3 p.m., drove to Vernon for a 7 p.m. service and then returned home to Armstrong. He remained minister of the Knox congregation until 1943, the year the congregation built its first church on 28th Street.
The congregation remained in its building on 28th Street until it was bought out by the provincial government and the site turned into Justice Park. A new church was built on Alexis Park Drive and dedicated in May 1971. But the congregation outgrew that building and built the present larger church beside it facing 32nd Avenue in 1989. The Fellowship Hall was added in 2002.
An additional event at this year’s Birthday Sunday was the symbolic burning of the last mortgage that had been taken out to finance the construction of the Fellowship Hall. The last payment on the $200,000 mortgage was made in September.
The symbolic burning was carried out at the front of the hall by church treasurer Alex Harrower, assisted by church trustees Ron Duncan and Don Morphet, and done under the watchful eye of the congregation’s minister, the Rev. Dr. Teresa A. Charlton.
From the Vernon Morning Star
Type of publication: Newspaper
When was the article reported?: 10/24/2012
Publication: The Vernon Morning Star
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