This page shares with you a little of our heritage. The text below the picture of the barn appears with the actual photo of the barn, and the text for the pew and the pulpit is taken directly from brass plaques that are attached to them. When you visit our church, you will find these relics of our wonderful past in our vestibule.
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THE BARN
1953-1967The beloved tabernacle in which we knew the presence of God during our fourteen years of struggling in this wilderness with no permanent dwelling place. The presage of better things, in it we prayed and planned, witnessed and worshipped; here many of us first met the Master or came to a closer walk with Him. Its rooms rang to the sound of the hammer, echoed the whine of the saw, and later listened to the prayers of little children being taught the way to God. Some of the hands that fashioned it have already been lifted before an eternal altar where they have laid their trophies at Jesus' feet, and others of us God has blessed in this world by allowing us to see our prayers answered in the erection of the building in which the reader now stands. In it we hang this picture to remind us of how we have been blessed--lest we forget, lest we forget!! And of the beloved old barn we say with the psalmist, "Let my right hand forget her skill...and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I forget Thee...". Psalms 137:5-6
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BARN PEW
One of Whitehall's first pews used in the barn.
Made by A. B. Whiteman from a poplar from his
homesite, 1000 Byron Street, Accokeek, MD,
the second meeting place of the church.
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WHITEHALL'S FIRST PULPIT
Made by A. B. Whiteman in 1954 from a wild cherry on his homesite, second meeting place of Whitehall mission. First used in the barn.
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Last modified: October 05, 2008