Church in Everett

Everett Church of Christ

Courtesy/Peninsula Library & Historical Society

On Sundays, at the conclusion of a long week of planting, harvesting, and selling crops, Everett community members gathered together at the local church. On this day of rest, residents tended to their spiritual needs and shared fellowship with neighbors. After a fire destroyed the original church in 1908, the community found the resources and energy to re-construct the Everett Church of Christ in the same location on Everett Road (renamed The Church in the Valley in the 1990s). The original church was a simple wood-frame building with curved pews and a belfry. Even after reconstruction and additions, visitors to the church today can still see vestiges of the earlier design.

 

• Children and Church

  
  

  2011 Oral History Project: Jan Thomas recalls how, as a child, she looked forward to eventually attending service upstairs with the adults.

  Credit / Author:

  Jan Thomas

  Date created:

  09/29/2021

  Audio Transcript

  “It was a wonderful little church. We had, downstairs you had the little kids, then when you got to be in seventh grade you could go upstairs (Yay!), into the real church, but you sat in the back, in the back two pews on the left-hand side, where the high school kids sat. And then the rest of ‘em all sat forward. But I mean, there were probably only fifty people in the whole community, so everybody knew everybody. But you graduated. You started downstairs and you came upstairs.”

 

• Church Construction and Renovation

  
  

  2011 Oral History Project: Hazel Broughton, former Everett resident, compares the older and newer versions of the church, and describes how church members and architects worked to preserve the structure's historical integrity.

  Credit / Author:

  Hazel Broughton

  Date created:

  09/29/2021

  Audio Transcript

  “The original church was just a frame, a wood-frame building. It still has its belfry and the bell is rung on Sundays yet. They bought the pews from some other church that went out of business. That was before I came. And they bought the pews. They are a curved pew, but when we added on for Church in the Valley, the carpenter outfit that did it . . . You have to look very closely to tell which are the 'new' old pews, and the old pews. They tried to keep it identical for the historical part. They did a very good job.”

 

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