Memory Monday...Apostolic Faith Church Vancouver BC

I'm scanning in old photos which my Dad, Jack Williams, took 60 years ago.

Time flies when you're having fun!

The above brochure was one I had kept in my memory box.

My Dad would glue these to the church newspapers.

This little church was at the corner of Kingsway and Rupert Streets in Vancouver BC.

It was demolished in 2002.

The interior of the churh, April 1954.

Photo by my Dad, Jack Williams.

I remember these chairs. The church got pews later in the 1960's so I was a small girl when I sat on these chairs. I remember Leona nearly folded up in half in one of them.

Looking the other way in the interior of the church.

April 1954.

Photo by Jack Williams.

December 1953.

Sunday School Christmas program rehearsal.

My Dad is in the back row, at the end on the right hand side.

His little brothers, Bobby and Dennis, are also in the mix.

The Vancouver Apostolic Faith choir, October 1954.

Most of these people are now gone. I remember them so well.

Oh, the happy memories of days gone by.

Sunday School Christmas Program - 1966

Christmas Program 1966

This year my name is spelled correctly!

Leona and I are one year older, and we sang "Dear Little Stranger".

I love that song.

I wonder where all the other kids listed in this program are today?

I wonder if they're on Facebook?

I know the older ones are in Heaven; Dick Neufeld, Paul Plesko, and John Schriner.

What a memory it is to me to read these names!

I'm so glad my parents are Packrats, and they didn't throw these papers away!

Christmas Sunday School Program - 1965

Christmas 1965

Sunday School Program

Flash forward from the last post I wrote, 9 years in the future, to 1965.

Jack & Susie Williams now had 3 little girls in their household.

Two of the little girls loved to sing.

If you click on the photo below, you'll see their names; Loretta & Leona Williams.

(For some reason, not many people could spell my name correctly, including my Grandma!)

I was 5 years old, Leona was 3, Marlene was 5 months.

The thing I loved about the Christmas program was the gift from our teacher afterwards.

I think it was this year that I got a small plastic doll in a small plastic crib.

Of course I was tickled! I think the presents were bought at the 5 and 10 store.

Everyone also got a treat, including the grown-ups.

We would go up the aisle, past the Pastor's office, where we were given a brown paper bag, which had candy, a madarin orange, candy cane, a pencil and peanuts.

Sunday School Christmas Programs

Do you remember Sunday School Christmas programs?

Maybe your church still has them.

Being a paper packrat, I thought I'd begin to scan in some of what I've kept all these years.

Of course, my parents are the Big Packrats, so I've inherited some interesting stuff!

This Christmas program leaflet is from 1956!

If you click on the photos, you will be able to see details.

There were no computers in those days, so the programs were typed first, then sent to a printer.

I love this copy, as my Mom's name, "Susie Williams", is on the right hand side at the top.

My Mom taught me how to play the organ. She played well.

My Mom was only 23 years old when this Christmas program took place.

She was raised in the Apostolic Faith Church in Dallas OR. When she met my Canadian father, and moved to Vancouver BC, they both attended the little Apostolic Faith Church on the corner of Kingsway and Rupert. (the church with the neon sign; "Jesus, the Light of the World")

She told me that it was "sinful" to have a program on a Sunday, as it was too much work, so the program was always on a week night!

Oh, how times have changed.

You can see my Dad's handwriting half way up the right side.

He's marked "lights" near a sentence. He always manned the lights at the back of the church.

He was also an usher, as he loved to meet and talk with people.

I'll be scanning in more programs, so stay tuned.