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Following are the reflections of two students from the 2/3 classrooms at Dr. Morris Gibson Elementary school after visiting the United Church as it exists today:

By: Victoria/Sam

Dear Parents:

We are writing this letter about the United Church. We are walking around the outside of the church. We are feeling the walls as we go. I am trying to feel what such an old church feels like today. So I entered the building. I walked down the stairs and saw plastic toys, metal and plastic chairs, and a wooden piano. It was hot and a bit stinky downstairs. I didn't think that there would be toys like this in the old United Church because they wouldn't have plastic in the past. If they did have toys they would have been made of wood. The chairs would make a rough sound as they moved over the carpet. The piano would make a soft or a loud dinging sound, as a girl would play it.

My mom's friend told us all about the United Church. She told us that it was built in 1896. She also told us that downstairs they would have meetings and the kids would play. It seems the same tradition continues today.

I walked upstairs and entered the room where all of the big long chairs were. I sat on one of the chairs and I looked up and I saw cracks in the roof. The cracks looked like a square. I saw a big cross on the wall and I saw a small cross that was rounded on the bottom and you could move. There was a large wooden object with a bowl of special water in it and they would dunk your head almost all the way in. The minister would draw a cross on your forehead. This is where children were baptized. On the back of the long chairs there were books. The title of these books was "Voices United". There were quilts that hang on the wall. They were velvety and different materials all together. If I folded one in two I would be very warm if I put it all around me and snuggled up into it and fell asleep. Above the quilts there was a pushed in space called the Belfry. Someone would open the latch and a big string would come down. In the olden days you would pull it and ring the bell. Now you push a button. Some things change, some do not.

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