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These images have been chosen from collections residing in the C. Wesley Christman Archives of the New York Annual Conference. If you recognize people or places, please let the archivist know!. Images of Ministry through the years. New York Annual Conference Compiled 2010.
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These images have been chosen from collections residing in the C. Wesley Christman Archives of the New York Annual Conference. If you recognize people or places, please let the archivist know! Images of Ministry through the years New York Annual Conference Compiled 2010
The first New York Annual Conference , New Rochelle, New York 1965
New York Annual Conference Cabinet, December 2009
Lois M. Congdon, 1949 Biographical info from Methodist Memoirs and Village Vignettes (Mt. Kisco) Lois Margaret Congdon, whose family dates back in the Mount Kisco Church over a hundred years, was the first woman ordained a minister in the “old” New York Conference of the Methodist Church, on May 12, 1963 at the First Methodist Church, Newburgh, NY. Pastor Lois grew up in Mt. Kisco, NY, attended its schools and furthered her education at Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA. Her Bachelor of Divinity degree and doctorate were granted by Drew University. She has served churches in the New York Conference and has taught at the college level.
Dorothea Hammer, Ermine Gaillard in church office, Bushwick United Methodist Church, Brooklyn, New York 1966
The Christian Student Sunday School magazine, November 1929
Laying of cornerstone, Yonkers Central Methodist Church, 1909
Dignitaries at cornerstone ceremony, Yonkers Central Methodist Church, 1909
Port Washington UMC Dance Choir at Earth Day celebration, White Plains, New York, 1992
Flying a kite, Earth Day 1992 White Plains, NY
Eliza M. Eldred, widow Flushing Methodist Episcopal Church, 1865
Sunday School picnic with Elsie Stowe, Sandy Hook, CT, ca. 1920-21
Rev. Herbert Skeete at South Ozone Park UMC, Queens, New York, 1966
Rev. Herbert Skeete, Henry Whyman, Conference Secretary, South Ozone Park UMC, 1966
Sunday School parade, First ME Church, Jamaica, Queens, 1939
Sunday School parade, First ME Church, Jamaica, Queens, 1939
Campers at work Camp Quinipet, ca. 1991
The Archives, 2009-2010 Ron Schultzel (left) volunteers in the Archives one to two days per week. At right, Commission on Archives and History members Leslie Reyman and Marilyn Hatch discuss church history with a workshop participant.
The Archives, 2009-2010 At left, archivist Mary Robison prepares to start a workshop with a group photograph. Participants discussing genealogy at right, with Audrey Klinkenberg (far right) facilitating.