Millgrove United Church


Service Time
is 10:30 am

Sunday services are live streamed
on our
YouTube channel.

Maundy Thursday - 6:00 pm
Pot Luck Supper, Hand Washing and Drama.

Good Friday - 10:30 am:
"Journey to the Cross".


Easter Sunday 10:30:

Communion and Easter Celebration.


Roast Beef Dinner on May 4th at 6 pm.
For tickets ($25.00) call Shirley
905-689-8617



Lunches:
We are blessed to be able to eat together following the service every Sunday.
The lunches are supplied through the generosity of our congregation.
If you would like to contribute a lunch, you may do so individually or by joining with others. (Many hands make light work). There is a list posted on the wall of the kitchen to let us know who will be providing lunch each week.
Please consult that list and if you see an opening, feel free to sign up!
This avoids having days when we have too much food or not enough!



FRIENDLY BELIEVERS DEEPENING OUR FAITH

THROUGH WORSHIP, MUSIC, HOSPITALITY AND OUTREACH

On June 1st, 2021, Mount Carmel United Church in Troy was sold. The congregation is aging and dwindling and since we were not using the building anyway due to Covid, the decision was made to sell. It was purchased by a group of Uyghurs from Toronto who have repurposed the building. It is still sacred space but is now the Uyghur Mosque and Cultural Center. We wish them well in their new endeavour.

The congregation of Mount Carmel Troy is still alive and well.
We have returned to in-person at worship! Sunday services are at 9:00 am at the Women’s Institute (right next door to the former church). You will be most welcome.


No Services during the summer!


HISTORY of TROY CHURCH


Celebrating 175 years of church services in Troy 1835 - 2010
by Elizabeth Nowell
(published in the St. George Lance)


As you travel east from St. George on Highway 5 through the hilly countryside around the village of Troy, you will pass the back of Mount Carmel United Church erected 137 years ago in 1873.

If you veer off to the south to the old Troy Road, you can see the front of the church - a large white brick edifice with red brick trim in an Italianate styles. The high wooden spires were recently covered with copper sheeting. Try to imagine the building of this church long before Highway 5 was constructed in 1930 and had bypassed the village.

The pressed bricks for the front were puchased in Brantford for $10 per thousand and the rest from Samuel Wood's brickyard at the west of Troy for $6 per thousand. The architect, Mr. Mellish, who also designed the Cainsville church, and contractor Mr. Watt, had given a tender of $7,128 fir a building 40 x 65 feet. Troy people were to supply local stone, bricks and lumber and water - likely from Fairchild's Creek - for the mortar.

Coloured glass for the windows was carefully transported by wagon from London, Ontario. However in spite of all the care that was taken earlier, the lovely newly-installed rose window was broken during a storm. Then another trip to London was needed to replace it.

In the minutes of a meeting of the building committee of 1873, there is a motion: "to appoint a group of ladies to devise some scheme to raise money to furnish the church." This sounds like a plan that women have continued to do throughout the years! The difference is that there are fewer people in the congregation at the present time.

Let us look back to 1835 for the first recorded church congregation in Troy, worshiping in a log cabin set among apple trees. This was the home of Hugh Mulholland Sr. and family, located southwest of the present-day Troy cemetery on Highway 5.

When the settlers met for religious services, large blocks of wood were brought into the house and pine boards laid across to form seats. Sermons by licenced Elders, or local preachers who arrived on horseback, lasted between two and three hours. Reverend Stoney was the first minister in official records.

Troy, Lynden, Mount Zion, Westover, Rockton and Rock Chapel formed the first Beverly Circuit. Circuit work demanded men of strong physique and indomitable courage. Their journeys through forest infested by wild animals, blocked by fallen trees, and over rivers and streams which horse and rider frequently had to swim, made pioneer work extremely hazardous. Their efforts were most highly appreciated by the settlers whose hospitality gave the best their humble log houses could provide to make the "Saddle Bag" minister comfortable.

After nine years of such worship, the first Episcopal Methodist Chapel was built in 1844. It was a frame building 30 by 40 feet, located on the hill towrad the southwest corner of Troy Cemetery. This land was donated by Conrad Misener.

The semi-circular wooden headboard inscribed "E.M.Chapel A.D. 1844" is retained in the present brick church in the village of Troy. Rev. Barney Markle, who was preaching at this time, lived on Concession 2, Beverly on a farm known as the Romasz farm (recently purchased by D. Bannister).

There was no musical instrument in the first frame church at the cemetery. The music for the hymns or psalms was set by a precentor (a person who assists in worship) who used a tuning fork to set the pitch for congregational singing.

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