The Saint Mark United Methodist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, held a pumpkin painting and lawn games for children.
According to its church's website, the Saint Mark United Methodist Church held a youth party with pumpkin painting and lawn games on Saturday, Oct. 16, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
According to the church's website, the church has also provided snacks and fall merriment for children during the event.
The Saint Mark United Methodist Church said the event was also held outside and free for all students of all ages.
Those who wish to see more information written in this article may visit the Saint Mark United Methodist Church's website.
Early Years
In 1872, the Walton and Forsyth Methodist Church established a mission in a house on the east side of Peachtree Street, just north of what is now Eighth Street, according to the Saint Mark United Methodist Church's website.
The church's website stated that the "Tight Squeeze" was the name given to the area outside of the city limits.
Saint Mark said the portion of Peachtree between present-day Eighth and Twelfth Streets was once looped around a thirty-foot ravine that stretched east from present-day Crescent Avenue down toward Piedmont Avenue and has been known as a sanctuary for cutthroats and thieves since the Civil War.
It added that it acquired its name from the idiom 'getting through there with your life was a tight squeeze.'
According to the church, the congregation formally changed its name to Saint Mark M.E. Church, South, in January of 1902.
The cornerstone for the new structure on Peachtree was laid on Oct. 22, the same year it added.
The church said the main sanctuary and the rooms behind and below it made up the original structure.
The church increased following World War I when it became evident that more significant buildings were required to accommodate the expanding Sunday school curriculum.
The group acquired enough to buy the plot of land and frame house next door from David Woodward, and the deal was completed in 1922, according to its website.
According to the church's website, the Frances Winship Walters Chapel and a new educational unit were built in 1948 as part of the next phase of Saint Mark's building development, which began in 1946 with a rehabilitation and construction program.
It stated that the enlarged educational building, completed in the 1950s, was the final addition to the current structure.
Repairing and repointing the outer granite walls, repainting the internal walls, and adding faux-wood painting to the beams were all completed in 2008, bringing a 15-year Sanctuary renovation master plan to a close, the church said.
As a result, the sacred space for God's praise and adoration has become even more intimate and warm, it added.
Encourage LGBTQ Members
Saint Mark experienced a new lease on life in the 1990s and at the millennium's turn, according to its website.
It added that due to the church's choice to encourage the local LGBTQ community to join them in worship, the congregation increased to over 1,700 members during that time.
Given that the church was on the point of shutting in the early 1990s, this was a particularly amazing revival, it said.
The church underscored that as the city grew to and beyond Saint Mark, as history shows.
At present, the Saint Mark United Methodist Church is surrounded by high rises, hotels, and apartment buildings, yet it continues to serve in the name of Christ in both the town and metropolitan Atlanta neighborhoods, as well as the rest of the world.
Those who wish to see more information written in this article may visit the Saint Mark United Methodist Church's website.
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