METHODIST CHURCH.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3001, 20 February 1926, Page 2

METHODIST CHURCH.

The first Methodist Church erected in Main Street, Foxton was opened on Good Friday, April 14th, 1870. As is well-known by all old residents this was later destroyed by fire. The local Trustees at a meeting on Tuesday last decided to make the Jubilee of the fii’st church in a fitting manner. It is proposed to hold special commemoration services on Sunday, April 11th. Then on the Wednesday following, the 14th, a service will be held in the Church which the Chairman of the District (Rev. M. A. Rugby Pratt) is to be asked to conduct. This will be followed by an old-fashioned Tea Meeting at which anticipated there will be a great gathering of the clans. In the evening a festival of music and memory will be held, when representatives from churches both ancient and modern will give five-minute addresses. The musical portion of the programme will be under the capable supervision of Mr. Harold Osborne, who with an augmented choir will doubtless provide harmony worthy of the occasion. Harvest Festival Services will he conducted on Sunday, March 28th to he preceded by a sale of work and produce on Saturday, March 27th. The above events will he advertised in the “Herald” in due course.