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FOUNDATIONS

Building RenewalZion Lutheran Church members take what was old and make it new.

Right at home: Sherwood Miller is at ease in the new Zion Lutheran Church sanctuary, which incorporates elements from the old church.  Photo by David SchrottWhen the congregation of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church outgrew its 163-year-old rustic, red-brick building in Leola, Pennsylvania, members packed up not only the memories and the hymnals, but pieces of the church itself.

Along with nine stained glass windows and the hand-carved baptismal font, several wooden beams from the old church found a home—and a renewed purpose—in the new church building. One church member, a woodworker, salvaged the beams from the rubble of the old church and fashioned them into two crosses—one hangs in the narthex, the other adorns the new sanctuary.

Lifelong congregation member Sherwood Miller takes comfort in being surrounded by elements of the old sanctuary, a place his family has attended services for five generations. “It’s good to see some of the old things in there, there is no question about that,” says Miller, whose grandfather built the original altar and baptismal font. “I realize that the future was not in that particular building and of course the building does not make the church—the people do.”

—Rikki Murray

 

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