The Barge Brothers Return!

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On Fri, 09 Oct 1998 10:17:49 Tyler Nally <tnally@iquest.net> writes:

>> > This will actually mean something to Tyler.
>> > I am the one on the far left.  I was sang tenor and played bass.
>> 
>>
>>And here I thought we would see a picture of Tyler sans beard.

Actually, I do have ONE and it's on that barge link.  I will make the
link more obvious.  Look for the Tyler link after about Sunday.

>Actually, those pictures were taken *before* I even knew there was a 
>Gibson City Pentecostal Church to go to.  

Did you get to hear the Barge Brothers sing?  I can't remember.  Once
there was a District Church thing in the North Park and we *stunned* the
entire congregation I think....hopefully they have since recovered.

>I figger that Bro Jerry and I overlap attendance there by about a 
>year-ish or so of time.  

Yup.  

>That picture was clearly before the church behind it had major 
>renovations done to it.  

Amazing what you can tell from such a SMALL picture of the Church!

>What you see behind you was the church that was there for years 
>and years..... then the spring/summer that I started attending, there 
>was a major project to build a new sanctuary

And it indeed was MAJOR.  The buildings there were verrrrrryyyyy old.

>since we (the members) did all of the inside stuff, we only had to 
>pay Morton for the shell, slab, and windows.

I had just started taking Isshin-ryu classes when that happened and I
remember practicing my thrust kicks against the walls of the older
building that we were tearing down.  :)

>The old church was re-fitted and made into sunday school rooms 
>and a functional kitchen and renamed "The Wallen Annex".  

Named after Sister Wallen, a beautiful saint of God.  She was elderly
when I first started going there and I remember riding on the van taking
her home each week.  She was VERY inspirational.

>Eventually, we put matching steel siding on the outside of the annex to
match the 
>rest of the newer tabernacle.

I'll be seeing it this Wednesday when I go to Church there with my mother
and my Uncle Donny.  Please, everyone, keep him in your prayers.  Have
you ever had a relative that you had been praying for and praying for but
EVERYONE just "knew" that they would never come to Church?  Well, my
Uncle Donny was one of those guys.  Nicest guy you'd ever meet; he would
go out of your way to help you...but anyway, he has been hit very hard in
several areas at once in the very recent past and it has caused him to do
some soul searching, so he is baptized in Jesus' name and is going to
Church seeking the Holy Ghost.

And again, I will be on vacation between Monday Oct 12 and Sun Oct 18, so
you guys might not hear from me during that time.  But I am not going to
request my mailing account be postponed because I am going to attempt to
install Juno on a new computer I just got my Mom.

Jerry Welch
ICQ: 18489712
www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/2810/

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