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PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH (U.S.A.)
We Are One In The Spirit And We Welcome Everyone To Join Us Sunday Morning At 10:30.
Coffee Hour is Our Time Together – After each worship service we get to know each other, while sharing coffee, tea, or juice. It’s a wonderful opportunity to know someone in a new way.
A Presbyterian Sunday School with 14 members was organized in the public school house on the 21st of May, 1873. Church services were conducted on Sunday afternoons, by ministers from Baltimore. The Sunday School met in the public school in the afternoon, and the children attended both the Methodist Sunday School in the morning and the Presbyterian in the afternoon. Mr. Dickey was the first Sunday School Superintendent. Out of this work grew the Presbyterian Church of Wetheredsville, now Dickey Memorial Presbyterian Church.
We find, by referring to old records, that this church was organized on the 17th day of December, 1877, but had its real beginning earlier, when four men, born and reared Presbyterians, conceived the plan of having Presbyterian services in the village of Wetheredsville. These men were Mr. Wm. J. Dickey, Gen. Jesse Lazear, Mr. E. D. Freeman and Mr. George T. Loomis.
The Dickey family and the Ashland Manufacturing Co. deeded the land for a Presbyterian Church, and Mr. Dickey contributed the greater part of funds for building the church and manse. A cornerstone was laid on Dec. 9, 1885.
We know the stories of God's efforts to communicate with creation and of creation's response. God communicates through rainbows and burning bush, and through the still small voice. We pray that God will speak through us as we tell new stories of the faith, life and mission found in Christ's church.
