CENTENNIAL MINUTES
Reflections by Bill Dawson
July 2, 1989
A
tenth of a century at Dillon Chapel has been very important to me and
those of my family. My first wife Cecelia and I became dissatisfied with our church life at Barboursville First Methodist Church. So, when Laddie Meadows invited me to a work party, I met the Dillon Chapel Family while constructing the add-on Sunday School classes. Chuck Pullen was the minister and a transfer of membership was next. I felt the nearness of my Lord that I had missed before. It was at this time I painted Christ as I visualized our savior. The loss of my father and my first wife within a year of each other gave me little hope that my mother would survive her serious illness, after 81 days in intensive care and the doctor said only a miracle could save her. She didn't know the power of prayer of the Dillon Chapel Family. During this period of time the Bell Tower was built and David Groves rebaptized me by emersion at Mt. Union... followed by the meeting of my loving wife, Cherry. Wedding Bells were next in the Dillon Chapel with the blessing of the Church Family. Our 7th Anniversary is tomorrow. Thank you God! |
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Reflections by Laddie Meadows
July 9, 1989
Chuck
Pullins served as pastor to Dillon Chapel from 1974-1978. During the early part of his ministry our Sunday School Program grew rapidly. Church felt that we needed more Sunday School rooms without using the Fellowhsip Hall or the stage. We kicked around the idea of buying a trailer and turning it into classrooms at one of our Board Meetings. Then we decided to add on to the basement. This seemed to be the right way to go for several reasons, for one, the children would not have to go out in inclement weather to get to their classrooms. We then established a Building Fund. A Building Committee was established as follows: Laddie Meadows, Chairman; Orville Sizemore, Treasurer; Gene Gillespie; Jack Jeffrey; Linda Cooke; Charlie Cooke; Ben Edens; Rufus Hensley; and Teresa Nash. To start our Building Program many members of the congregation donated money. We had our first barbecue in June 1977 and it was successful in making $1,287.77 for our Building Program, and the proceeds from our 1976 and 1977 applebutter makin' project was put into the Building Fund. The Methodist Men and Methodist Women also held fund raising projects to help add to the Building Fund. In July of 1977, we dug the basement. Elliott Adkins operated the dozer and charged $150.00 for his service. July 21st we poured the footers for our new classrooms and we were on the way. The cost of the footer was $258.00. For the next few weeks members, friends and neighbors laid the block for the walls and also moved the well inside of the church. We placed our sewers, pipes, wire and plastic over top of level sand at the cost of $1,563.78. We left part of the blocks out at the end toward the street so that a concrete floor could be poured for the addition. September 21, 1977, concrete floors were poured for our new classrooms at the cost of $476.25, plus a cash payment of $100.00 to Mr. Cox for leveling and finishing of the concrete floors. For the next few months we put up the interior walls and placed termite shield, plates, sills, subfloor, tar paper, shingles, electric, and plumbed the new addition at the cost of $2,461.76. That Brings us to December of 1977, and cold weather and lots of snow and another story later. |
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Reflections by Laddie Meadows
July 16, 1989
During
the early part of 1978, we had several very hard winter storms. At times
we had 31 inches of snow on the ground and 24 degrees below zero weather. We worked on Saturdays and week days to finish our classrooms. In the David Grove's Victory Classroom we used an electric heater to lay brick for the fireplace. The bricks were brought in to thaw so we could lay them up. It was toward the last of February when we had a few warm days in a row and our Pastor (Chuck- Pullins) was in the upstairs bathroom shaving one morning when he heard a loud pop. He looked out the window and was amazed that the snow, which was several feet deep on the church roof, had slid off on the new classrooms roof and collasped the roof. The United Mehtodist Men were called and we crawled in under the roof and jacked it up. With a few braces and blocks a little patching here and there, we were back in shape again. |
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"The Exalters" as part of Dillon Chapel
July 23, 1989 - Henrietta Hileman
In June 1979, Dillon Chapel was getting a
new minister, John Smith. For his first Sunday in the pulpit at Dillon, it
was suggested that we have "Special Singing". Therefore, Peggy Jeffrey,
Henrietta Hileman, Gene Gillespie, and Orville Sizemore decided to try
singing as a quartet. They asked Mike Dillon to play the piano, and Tommy
Ferguson played the drums. Everyone said they enjoyed the singing and
encouraged them to continue. |
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Memories by Thomas J. Jeffrey
July 30, 1989
One of the first things that I remember
about this church is that we used to have two separate Sunday School
openings. |
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