Celebrating 50 years

Times Reporter

 

The Strathmore Alliance Church will be celebrating its 50th anniversary on Oct. 20. There will be a come-and-go luncheon for anyone interested and plenty of memorabilia to reminisce over.

“We have pictures dating back until…the original school house we started in, we have pictures of that. It’s kind of cool the memorabilia that we have around here,” said Donna Fitzgerald, children’s director for the church. 

On Sunday, Oct. 21, there will be coffee time beginning at 10 a.m. with church tours available, and at 11 a.m. there will be a special service held with previous pastors attending. 

“It’s about honouring God in what he has done on Strathmore and how he has blessed us. We have a plaque on the outside our building that says ‘To God be the Glory’ and that was put there in 1962 and so it’s just incredible that he has blessed us and allowed us to be here for 50 years,” said Fitzgerald about the special service. 

She said it will be like a family reunion with the pastors and former members returning. There will be kids activities and they will be part of the service, singing a couple of songs with the choir.

Pastor Darrell Young agrees that in his past 15 years he has seen the church and the members in it grow to become a big family. 

“There’s been a growth in terms of us becoming a congregation, kind of like a big family. So if there’s a young person here he has a whole bunch of grandparents, if there’s an older person here they’ve got a whole bunch of grandkids and uncles and aunts and brothers and sister. Just a real family sense of community,” said Young. 

“Our hope for the future of the church is that our young people become fully engaged and that our younger families and younger people lead us into the future and engage fully in the community.”

The open house begins at 2 p.m. on Oct. 20 and will end at 5 p.m. The entire community is encouraged to stop by, whether it’s for the open house on the Saturday, or the Sunday service.