Index by: Story Name: The Green Line Fireworks in Covington Ice Skating on the Lagoon Main Street Methodist Church My Dad's Sledding Accident Some of My Best Memories Summer at Goebel Park Dinser Decoration Day Memories Main Character: Bryant, Betty (Schneider) Bender-Rigney, Kelly Dinser, Harold (Family) Main Street Methodist Church Green, Michael L. Haas, Ealie and Bertha Osborne, Carol (Griffith) Schneider, Walter

 

Main Street Methodist Church
corner of 8th and Main Sts.

I have many fond memories of this church as a child. We would stay overnight on Saturday with our grandparents, Ealie and Bertha Haas who lived on Pershing Ave. Mamaw would get us up and dressed real nice and we would walk to 8th and Main for Sunday school. What a grand time we would have, singing and clapping and getting ready for class. We had some of the nicest ladies in those days as teachers. If we were good, Mamaw and Papaw would let us stay for church with them. We would meet them at the bottom of the steps just inside the front doors of the Church and walk reverently upstairs to the Sanctuary. It all seemed so big and overwhelming but when the people began to sing it was wonderful. Our preacher, I will never forget him, Rev. Eugene Barbour, I just thought he was the next best thing to God himself, and I was only about 7 years old. I would just sit and listen and soak up everything he was saying. Jimmy Lee played the piano, it was wonderful.

I am just happy that my parents and grandparents gave us the opportunity to experience Main St. Methodist Church and I will be sorry to see it be converted into condos/apartments but that is progress I guess.

Anway, all of us who experienced God on that corner will never forget it.