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Milford Methodist Church

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Pastor Sylvia, Jim Kevlin Wed At Lakeside Service

Pastor Sylvia, Jim Kevlin Wed At Lakeside Service Sylvia Elizabeth Barrett and James C. Kevlin were married Saturday, July 11, 2020, on the porch at Hyde Hall, overlooking Otsego Lake. The Rev. Teressa Sivers, pastor, St. Paul’s Methodist Church, Ithaca, and former pastor of First United Methodist Church, Oneonta, performed the ceremony. The bride was given away by state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford. Cindy Seward was the matron of honor. The best man was Matthew Lacey, Exton, Pa. The bride…

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Symbol Of Endurance Buoys Milford Church

BAPTISMAL FONT REPAIRED Symbol Of Endurance Buoys Milford Church By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – Three years ago, shortly after the Milford Methodist Church burned down, two members of the congregation, Al Bullard and Bill Triolo, were standing across Route 28 watching a crew of Peruvians from Rohlf’s Stained & Leaded Glass, Mount Vernon, removed “Christ in Gethsemane” and other windows from the ruins. As Bullard remembers it, Triolo, now chairman of church trustees, suggested, “Let’s go…

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Open House 3-5 Friday As Milford Congregation Moves Into New Church

Open House 3-5 Friday As Milford Congregation Moves Into New Church MILFORD – Drivers on Route 28 have been watching a new Milford Methodist Church rising for the past year after its 1930 predecessor burned on March 12, 2017. It’s now complete, and the public is invited to an open house 3-5 p.m. Saturday, June 8, to tour the new building. The first service in the church will be at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, June 9.…

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Up From The Ashes2 Years After Fire, Milford Methodist Anticipating ‘Starkly Beautiful’ Church

Up From The Ashes 2 Years After Fire, Milford Methodist Anticipating ‘Starkly Beautiful’ Church Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs, 3:5-6 By JIM KEVLIN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com MILFORD – It was about 4 a.m. on March 13, 2013. The 1930 Milford Methodist Church had burned down the night before in a raging fire that was seen for miles, and…

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Stained-Glass Window Back In Place Of Honor

Stained-Glass Window Back In Place Of Honor ‘Christ At Gethsemane’ Rescued After Raging Fire Destroyed Milford Church Pastor Sylvia Barrett surveys the nearly complete sanctuary – “starkly beautiful,” as Methodism’s founder John Wesley preferred – inside the new Milford Methodist Church this morning as stained-glass restorer Doug Hallberg of Oneonta reinstalls “Christ at Gethsemane,” which was almost destroyed Sunday, March 12, 2017, when the 1929 landmark on Route 28 was destroyed in an arson fire.  Construction began on the new…