this is a my go from seeing your perspective today we're down here in going isha at the rites methodist church and they're celebrating their hundred seventy fifth anniversary and i would like to introduce you to the pastor of the church reverend james high this is quite a celebration for us one hundred seventy five years from the beginning days that were as across the crik actually it started as a rite chapel given the land and build by the right family  wanted a chapel in the wilderness for the people in the community it was actually non denominational the time anybody could come the warship even though he was in fact a baptist but a very faithful man very dedicated so he built a church and  actually a chapel very small one room potbelly stove across the creek over on the hillside where the current cemetery is and there is still the remaining fair field stone foundation that has been uncovered and restored in those days there were a few people that passed by from time to time his own son had gone off into kentucky or tennessee and attended a camp meeting where he was converted and challenged by god to to accept as his savior and he went on to do some studies and became a methodist minister himself he came back to town one day and was talking with his father and ended up deciding to take over the pulpit and as he took over the pulpit eventually turned it into a methodist episcopal church and those days and long since then it's now a united methodist church we're here to celebrate those hundred seventy five years because god has created everything around us and the body of christ which is the church is something to be honored that heritage has gone on from generation to generation and god still is creating and that's the fun part of being in ministry that even though we can look back we can look back over the years in the decades and the generations of the people who have gone before us and celebrate what they have done the faith that they kept over all those years we also know that the faith is being kept now so after hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of hours of work and dedication and time by a number of people here and there at the congregation but it well is in the community  restoring the cemetery over at the other site and helping out here at the church and many contractors who have in addition to having a contract to get some work done have sense felt that there is more need to be added here and so they've donated some of their time and materials to the project as well so we're here to celebrate the creating god that we live for and honor and have faith in because he still creating so even though we're looking at history and we're studying the heritage from the right family on forward i even have my own grandfather my fifth great grandfather settled this country in the middle of seventeen hundreds and he ended up starting a couple of couple of churches presbyterian church at that time and also helped start a couple of educational institutions so i've had history and heritage in my family for many many years so that's what it's all about it's about people it's about fun it's about children it's about you it's about elderly people looking back and statically remembering their heritage their people their families what has gone and in the past remembering the hard times depression wasn't easy for anybody and remembering the good times and where they've come to to this day and that's what it's really all about lots of good times absolutely sad absolutely that when did they build this building then well the chapel was built across the crick in eighteen twenty across the crick yes it's around down around on sugar run and take a left on mango church road oh yes go to church it's right on the first corner of church road on and it's on side you'll just the new sign up there and everything you get you'll not miss it at all and that was for the ninety nine years and then they took the parts of the that particular apple unassembled it and brought it over here to start this church so there are a few pieces that have been carried over across the crick and have come in through these doors over the years this is something to be very proud to have of building this law and you had to have people coming here all this time and you know changing their lives really yes changing their lives and many people who drive by have started have come to the church just because it's a quaint small country church that's what they want and they walk in and what's more exciting for me as a minister is to see the light in their eyes because once they get inside they find people who are very warm very accepting and they get this sense of a church family so this church has been going on for one hundred seventy five years it's not because of the ministers we've had many ministers in this parish for thank you very very much you're quite well it was wonderful talking to enjoy the rest of the day god bless you god bless you i go back and get to work right by now ok we're still wandering around here on the premises of wright's methodist church and i found a guest here that you might be interested in hearing what she has to say your name is my name is kay parrish kay bearish and what is your thing well i'm showing but we were represents quotes that are given to children who are born at risk and it's a nationwide program but the quotes are made in the serious day in this area and they go to hospitals in downtown pittsburgh to kids who are born premature with aids or with other problems information today and there's examples here of the ice a lots what they do is they take the baby quilts and rate them over the ice to let's to make it a cheerier place intensive care units at the hospitals and these children get to take the quilts home with them so what she does she quilts off to the hospital and she never knows which children get them but they know that they've come from a b c quilts and they keep them with them in a lot of the kids with long term help health problems and bring them back to the hospital when they come in for treatment cause they get very attached to the quilts but the women here at right usually make up a batch of quilts about twice a year we make up quotes to give to the kids and they're made right here they differ is that an organization that does this now well the right united methodist church the women here yes the women's group does them wonderful and where do you get your ideas for the patterns and stuff like that this is just something that everybody thinks about their work there are some patterns out there that joan temple provides for people if they're looking for patterns but some of us are quilters and like to come up with pa are done in the size all of their voice very nice and we get everything from something more complex like that to just one single piece of fabric on the front and one on the back with them tied together so we get the whole spectrum  t one one that's very interesting it's a very worthwhile project and heads and i'm sure that you know it's very welcomed all over yes it's sure is like i said it's a nationwide project and we certainly have a lot of kids here that need it so we try to provide help tell the public it about what we're trying to do which is preserve the venetia school we would like to we're buying the building from the peters township school district and we're hoping to close on that by the end of the month and then we'd like to put our efforts into renovating the building for a senior citizen center and an arts and cultural center at the center there will be senior citizens getting together to meet socialize have lunches the mcmurry art league would be a main tenet also they would be having exhibits working on having art classes and exhibits at the school also we will have a theater group called the steel city theater which will be having equity actor performances right on site actually in the same room where everyone used to have their assemblies during the stage yeah during the school so we thought that was really neat because lots of other nonprofit groups and they would like to have space in the building so we're working on  us and we really want to thank her also we keep we keep selling all these no cards every time we would or more so if you'd like to buy no cards just didn't contact with either sander myself or print or print we have it by tens and vorhees dropped this off today her father was a minister here at the church and she attended vinicius school and this is the old auditorium and this is was their percussion band that they does the students  and you can find out more information about the group by calling either lou or myself and i guess we're listening from books oh ok well thank you both very much and i know you are very very busy  and he has a few words i'd like to tell you well i can remember being here as a pastor several years ago and i served there for eight years and i remember i didn't want to come here but they sort of force me to come and it's church th time they could and i served eight years here and it was a one point year and we had our son here and we grew up here and we did some improvements we had on the new addition to the bach and we painted the sanctuary and put new lights in and quite a few things that would happen around here i was here from nineteen seventy five to one thousand nine hundred three so that's true is a little bit smaller but i rake the leaves of many years  our sun and i played in many years and it was just a very good experience being here and so we're glad to be back and see some old friends and make some new friends so yes a do but the church know i had a lot of weddings here people came by and saw how beautiful the church was and i had a lot of weddings in fact a lot isn't saudis were filled up and i even started going on thursdays so it was a good place for people to come and to be married in so but it's we had a good prosperous years here the thing i remember about wright's church most was its mission program they were strong missionary people they are a supporter of missions very well and we had guest speakers come in once a month and tell us about missions and so that was something i remember quite well so i was a good church to serve i had eight good years and church grew and it was nice it does and this field used to be mowed i mowed it the whole way down the road tract and we had food trees planted in there and a grape arbor but they're all gone now and it was fun we had a lot of fun here and shooting ground hogs and run around through  here we had a big garden here this was our garden area right here and it was just it was so we really enjoyed being out here it was country and we love it and our retirement home now is built on the country and we like it there to anniversary and i'd like to introduce my name is here maori and yes ok and what are you doing i'm spending right now i'm a member of the washington county fiber arts crafts and although i haven't been an active member for several years i still enjoy spending i don't get to do it very often my children are more active in school is really looks very interesting i mean i don't min lucky enough to find a clean fle so you can spin it what we call in the grease where the lanolin is still in the shape and i understand i've never done that but i understand it's very very soft on your hands because the lanolin but you do have to have a  end and what you're actually doing is you're taking the fibers and you are spinning them you're twisting them and if they twist they become stronger and then feeds through here and onto the spin  this is a more grey grey and white fleece i have some here that this is a medium brown we have one down there the lighter takes it takes a long time to get from place to sweater but it's fun to do and i enjoy it as well thank you very much it was very interesting talking to you  here george and helen so perhaps you could tell us something about when you came to this church and i would just tell me irma i was born in florida and when i came home and i was born in february when i come home in about may the year they had my cradle roll certificate made up from this church so i still had it framed and i brought it today for everyone to see and i was i went to it was confirmed in his church and then when i met my husband i joined a lutheran church but all my grants my ancestors were from this church started early rose this grand and all the sins and my mother was in the  women's circle here blanche case your beard and i was here most every sunday in the summertime because i stayed at my grandmother's right handy down the road here and my aunt played the piano for the church so she made sure i was so we thought well we're going to join our little country church and we're all family here and it's wonderful minister and we all get along and everybody helps each other you know that's very true about all th anything i don't care what you do in the country everybody gets together and we all stick together and do it together until it's finished ok jim anything else helen well i was just thrilled to come back home to this church to have a nice church to come back to and now our minister couldn't be here he and his wife yes i met a man who seems like a very very nice there need him when i was in the hospital he was there and he is always called and kept in close contact with me that means a leave these wonderful proceedings in at everybody has been so nice and all and i'm sure that they all wish for you to stop by at the rites methodist church of an issue if you ever buy this way i'm sure you would be greatly welcomed and everybody was so nice and i wish to thank everybody and it was great doing the show with them so thank you all very much and we'll see you again thank you