Church welcomes brighter days

SOMERS Two years after a fire destroyed its former edifice, members of Somers Congregational Church will be celebrating this new year with a different sort of brightness.

A special outdoor service has been scheduled New Years Day at 5 p.m. outside the church, located at 599 Main St.

The service will mark the two-year anniversary of the late-night fire on New Years Day 2012 that destroyed the meeting house built in 1842.

Its been a long time coming, church Moderator Anne Kirkpatrick said Monday. Its been 104 weeks.

Kirkpatrick said the ceremony will be brief, with several hymns planned before new LED lights are turned on to brighten the church at night.

We want to have a positive memory moving into 2014, she said. We are looking to the future.

After relocating its worship services to Johnson Memorial Hospital for the last two years, the congregation held a Christmas Eve service last week in the downstairs hall of the rebuilt church.

The church is still in the final stages of being rebuilt. The cause of the fire remains undetermined.

Kirkpatrick said several new LED lights will be used to shine brightly on the churchs steeple and some portions of the churchs portico.

We needed to do something to get over the hump there, she said, adding the lights will be on for roughly four hours each night. This is something we can do.

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