[Magdalen] Update (was Prayer request)

[Joseph Cirou]

There is a St. Katherine's Baptist Church near us in Decatur, Ga.

Joe

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>