| .. was built by Augustus Barnard Felgemaker of Erie, Pennsylvania for the Bethel Baptist Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was dedicated on September 13th, 1896 and provided music for that congregation for exactly 85 years. The organ was purchased by the Church of the Holy Spirit in 1981 through the Organ Clearing House—an organization which exists to facilitate "organ transplants" of the musical variety. Moved to Vashon by several members of our congregation, It was repaired, restored, and reconstructed by Prof. Randall J. McCarty of Pacific Lutheran University, assisted by our organist at that time—James Brumbaugh. He and Jane Edge performed at its inaugural concert on September 12, 1982. Felgemaker’s Opus 630, the organ has wooden tracker rods and a total of 601 pipes—many of them square wooden sounding pipes. Its metal display pipes have been repainted and restenciled in their original designs.
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Our
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Our
Stained Glass Window... |
...is over the entrance
to the Church and depicts the first Pentecost, when the apostles were
gathered together and "there appeared to them tongues as of fire...and they
were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as
the Spirit gave them utterance." (Acts 2:3-5)The Day of Pentecost is the
feast day of the Church of the Holy Spirit and the window was dedicated on
the Day of Pentecost, May 23, 1999, by the Rev. John K. Thompson, Rector. The window was created by Vashon glass artist K. B. Jones , assisted by Sylvija Paza who etched the faces, hands, and feet of the figures. It is based on a design by Gertrude Mueller Nelson. The window is in memory of Carol Dodge Miller, a parishioner who died from cancer on March 31, 1986. It is a gift from her husband, John, other family members and friends. |