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July 10, 2009 in Business
Mead church taking shape
Ousted by a freeway, church members are building a new home
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Ken Baird, lower left, Steve Omans, operating lift, and Jeremy Eschliman, on lift, work on the new Mead United Methodist Church building at Farwell and Wilson roads.
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After seeing their last church go up in smoke – by design – Mead United Methodist Church members are watching their next building become reality.
The $465,000 project is a post-frame church at the corner of Wilson and Farwell roads in Mead. It’s due to be ready for worship services this fall.
It will replace a temporary church nearby that the congregation has been using for more than three years.
The new church replaces the congregation’s previous church, near the intersection of Shady Slope and Farwell, that was in the path of the proposed north-south freeway. After the congregation …
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