[Magdalen] Update (was Prayer request)

[Lynn Ronkainen]

From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
> Then there was Crab Bottom Presbyterian Church over in Blue Grass, VA. 
> Now Trinity Episcopal!


hmmmm interesting metamorphosis... OTOH, I love Crab Bottom!

Lynn

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From: "Grace Cangialosi" <gracecan at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015 2:47 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Update (was Prayer request)

> Then there was Crab Bottom Presbyterian Church over in Blue Grass, VA. 
> Now Trinity Episcopal!
>
>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 11:31 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> That is a strange name! A little out of character for TEC, but not for 
>> that
>> part of Virginia, I guess. Odd/unusual church names in my experience are
>> more likely to be found in other denominations. In east Tennessee, both
>> Baptist and especially Methodist churches are often "so-and-so's chapel"
>> <denomination> <church>. I think those names may stem from whoever gave 
>> the
>> land the church stands on. However, in the county next to the one I lived
>> in, there are two little Methodist churches that are "Martha's Chapel" 
>> and
>> "Mary's Chapel". I never could find out where those came from! Then 
>> there's
>> the African-American custom of naming churches "greater" this or that. My
>> favorite is a big Baptist church in Milwaukee, Greater Galilee. They used
>> to have a really superior choir, don't know if they still do. And in
>> Knoxville there is a COGIC that is Greater Warner Tabernacle; no idea who
>> or what Warner is/was.
>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Oh, that's the same church! I read the historical marker the day I saw 
>>> the
>>> church, but it didn't appear that the church was being used anymore. 
>>> That
>>> would have been more than ten years ago...
>>> I'd forgotten you were in that area.
>>>
>>>>> On Jan 7, 2015, at 4:55 AM, Kristin Rollins <kristin at verumsolum.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is in Virginia Beach, on Witchduck Road, just east of Independence
>>>> Blvd. The origin of the name appears to be pretty simple. The land for
>>>> the church was donated...and eventually it was an old church (the first
>>>> use of the phrase, according to a history linked from their web site 
>>>> was
>>>> from the 1820s). Old Donation was the first church in Virginia Beach,
>>>> and in 2012 celebrated their 375th anniversary with a visit from the
>>>> Presiding Bishop.
>>>>
>>>> One of the links to that past is the baptismal font, which is a very
>>>> heavy thing that was from the original 17th-century church building. It
>>>> was apparently recovered in the early 20th century from the bottom of
>>>> the Lynnhaven River. To quote a parish history linked from their web
>>>> site: "Broken places remain from the time it served as a boat anchor in
>>>> the river. There is great symbolism in a baptismal font going under the
>>>> waters and raised to provide new life!"
>>>>
>>>> Nowadays, it is a very active parish, with four services each Sunday
>>>> morning, three in the historic church and one in the parish hall 
>>>> (8:00,
>>>> 9:15, and two simultaneous services at 10:30). And they are busy 
>>>> through
>>>> the week as well. It is the largest parish I have ever attended. I
>>>> visited there several times when I was down to see Heather, and we
>>>> continued to attend until after I took the job in Portsmouth. In fact,
>>>> the last time I was at the Sunday 10:30 service in the historic church
>>>> would have been for the blessing of our marriage...it was only a week 
>>>> or
>>>> two after I started playing for St John's, because I remember needing 
>>>> to
>>>> arrange that Sunday off when I began to work there.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Kristin Rollins
>>>> kristin at verumsolum.com
>>>> Portsmouth, VA
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 6, 2015, at 11:57 PM, Grace Cangialosi wrote:
>>>>> "Old Donation"??  I passed a church with that name once a few years 
>>>>> ago
>>>>> somewhere in Virginia, I think. Strangest church name I've ever heard!
>>>>> Only in VA, I thought, where there is also the Robert E. Lee Memorial
>>>>> Chapel, also known to the locals as "St. Bobby's"
>>>>> Where is your Old Donation Church, Kristin?
>>>