Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church – 150 years to celebrate!

Pam Fitch displays the Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church 150 Year Commemorative Plate...photo by Peggy Sue McRae

Friday Harbor Presbyterians celebrated 150 years on San Juan Island (Part II: The 20th Century) last night. Mike Vouri walked us through time with choice historic photos and Pastor Joe Bettridge continued with the history of the congregation. The evening was livened up by stories from the living memory of attendants. Lynette Guard confessed to losing part of the girls choir in the woods one night on Orcas and Candy Carter Dossett divulged a story of a young man who learned not to throw stones any where near glass windows by working off the damage starting the fires in the morning to heat the church.

And I wonder, do the kids still ring the church bell on Halloween?

Here’s Pam Fitch showing off the new Friday Harbor Presbyterian Church 150 Year Commemorative Plate (above). It features all four sites starting with the log school at Portland Fair, the Valley Church, the old church on Spring Street and the new, present day church, across Spring Street from the old one. On the back of the plate are listed all of the pastors from the very beginning to the present. At only $20, this treasure in a real bargain!

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