My Fieldtrip

My Visit to Muirs chapel On February 28, 2010, I went on a fieldtrip to a Methodist perform building called Muirs Chapel United Methodist Church (UMC). The church was founded in 1822 when Jeremiah Dodson, a local sermoniser from the west, held assistances under brush arbors and the shade of oak tree trees on the grounds. The church grounds were located behind where the current create is located at 314 Muirs Chapel Road Greensboro, NC 27410. After his serves and crusade began, the charge was organized and passed on to the Reverend Thacker Muir.Reverend Muir cut the first lumber for the first structure known as the Log Meeting House. In Reverend Muirs honor the reboot was changed to Muirs Chapel. After the damage of the log structure, it was replaced in 1875 by a nonpareil-room weatherboard building. Weatherboard is the facing or siding of a house consisting of long thin quality boards that overlap one a nonher, either vertically or horizontally on the out(a)side of the wall, thus making the building waterproof.This building was eventually travel across the street to the cemetery when the present sanctuary was constructed in 1903. During the days of 1929 thru 1932 the Log Meeting House was enlarged, remodeled and brick-veneered, along with the first landscaping of the grounds. in that location is a replica of the Log Meeting House remaining on the grounds today. In the honor of Reverend Thacker Muir, the current building is shut up known as Muirs Chapel. In 1940, the first educational building, called the Smoak Building, was built and the next year the church received its first full-time pastor, W.Kenneth Goodson. There were annual Camp meetings at harvest time held in the Smoak Building until they were replaced by revivals, which were replaced at the turn of the century by Pre-Easter services. In the fifties, The Smoak Building was attached to the church, although it was then and currently still considered the educational wing of the church, it still carries the name The Smoak Building, which now houses the church offices. Year 1960, there was an otherwise do- respectableer added to the church called the Boren Building.This building was also dedicated to Reverend Thacker Muir in 1960. Since 1960 the Church has been rebuilt and remodeled some(prenominal) times, with the present sanctuary macrocosm completed in 1980. The latest addition to Muirs Chapel is the Kale Christian Center which houses the Playschool, classrooms, and the contemporary godliness auditorium. After doing c arful research, I am still which I not sure as shooting when this addition began and when it was completed.Now that my readers have learned a little level of the church I visited for my field trip, I am now dismissal to talk a little about what I discoverd at Muirs Chapel, which was a great accept I might add. As I was on the focusing to the church I made sure I did not have any pre-c one timeptions of my visit to this church. I valued t o be open-minded so that I could pick out in my experience and learn from it no matter if was good or bad. When I pulled into the park lot I noticed there were not many sumptuosity cars.In my opinion, this was the first sign of the members being non-materialistic. Then the church itself looked to be senior with quite a few new additions, yet it is really challenge on the outside. But, when I got out of my car there was a face cloth lady walking through the walkway across the lawn that immediately halt and asked me how I was doing, and if I needed help. I immediately felt welcomed and I had only met one of the members of this church. She told me how to get to the sanctuary for the Traditional Service which started at 845 A. M.Once in the sanctuary and sitting down, a senior gentleman who looked to be around fifty or sixty age of age, as most of the congregation seemed to be, tapped on my shoulder and said it is good to have you here this morning, and if you do not already hav e a church home please come stake here with us. As readers can see this was the beginning of a very warming experience for me. The service began a little different from what I am utilize to. For starters there were only about 25 people at this service and they were all Caucasian, as I am utilize to an all African-American congregation.Nevertheless, the service began with the welcoming of the congregation and congregational concerns as I had never seen this in a Sunday morning service before. At my church I am used to praise and worship team relation songs of praise to open the service. There were no concerns, so immediately they went into song. The choir director stood in the pulpit directing the congregation to sing, not an substantial choir, exclusively the congregation. Still, I could not believe the choir director was directing from the pulpit. Later I was told congregation is the choir as there is no choir for this service.As I listened to the song and tried to take par t in the singing of the song, I found it difficult to follow as it was birdcall like an opera song very high-pitched. But once the lectureer began to preach, by the way he preached on the strength to forgive, which by the way was the title of his message. Everyone became extremely restrained and sat still as possible. Me being Black, I was definitely not used to this. I am used people talking back to the preacher, saying for example You better preach preacher, tell them what the word says At Muirs Chapel it was a quiet as could be. Needless to say I did not say anything back to the preacher while he was preaching. In case some of my readers are wondering how I managed to choose this church being African-American and this church being predominately white, I was invited by my classmate Lisa Tanico who is one of the ministers of this great church. Anyway, once the service was over I met with Lisa and she began to take me on a twist of Muirs Chapel. What I saying was amazing.Lisa a nd I had to pass through the kinsfolk hall where there were refreshments offered such as coffee, juice, and biscuits with a side of bacon or sausage. This very rarely happens at my church unless it is a special agent of some sort. I was astonished to find out there were some(prenominal) different refreshments served after each service. Lisa then took on a ready(a) tour of the rest of the church as she needed to readily gettable to the members if one needed to talk or maybe ask for prayer. So we scurried on to the Contemporary service that was going on in one of the newer parts of the church.I was in this service for only about 15 minutes as this service started at 900 A. M. , and the Traditional service I attended started at 845 A. M. What little I saw was interesting. There was an actual choir at this service, and the choir had a set forth sound, which is closer to what I am used to hearing. At the end of this service Lisa had to leave to attend to some of the members of the church and I had to go to a dedication at my church. But before my departure, Lisa did tell me that Muirs Chapel was very involved in the community.This church is part of the Urban Ministry, inviting roofless and the less fortunate to come in and eat on certain(prenominal) days of the week. Muirs Chapel also has several educational, sporting and scriptural programs for the community, or just any one who may want to take part in participating. I am not sure which days, but either way just to know this church extends its arms out to the community in such away as this, if for no other reason at all makes me feel welcomed and privileged to have had the jeopardize to visit this great Methodist church known as Muirs Chapel.