Spencer Federated Church - Spencer, NY
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N 42° 12.800 W 076° 29.555
18T E 376800 N 4674541
This church was originally Methodist (1810), they joined the Baptist, then the Lutherans (1934). It was still St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in 2006. The address for the church now is 30 West Tioga Street, so they have moved.
Waymark Code: WMRWVY
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 08/15/2016
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"It is interesting to note that the destinations reported by the immigrant Finns at the time of their arrival to the United States between 1899 and 1910 were destined to four states: Michigan, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and New York...According to A. William Hoglund, religion was very important to the church Finns. Because of the traveling distance to North Van Etten, the Spencer Finns readily accepted an offer of a building of their own in Spencer when the Methodist congregation of this village merged with the Baptist congregation to form the Spencer Federated Church. The former Methodist Church edifice in Spencer thus became St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Spencer in 1934. The same pastor was shared between the North Van Etten and Spencer congregations. Services were alternately held in English and Finnish at the two churches so that on any one Sunday a Finnish service or an English service could be attended...Today the church is served by a part-time ordained pastor named Rev. Laura Daly and attendance is slowly growing...From a presentation by the author, at the Finger Lakes Finns Annual Fall Finnish Festival, on September 17, 2006, for the year long Bi-Centennial Celebration of the of the Village of Spencer."
Spencer Federated Church is at 70 N Main St.