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Merrick Life • Bellmore Life • Freeport-Baldwin Leader • Wantagh-Seaford Citizen

Merrick United Methodist Church continues its 60th Anniversary celebration with an old-fashioned “Gospel Song Fest” to be held on Sunday, July 11, at 10 a.m. in the church sanctuary, 1425 Merrick Avenue, North Merrick. 

The “Camp Meeting” will be led by Rev. Glenn Adone, a former church member who entered the ministry. Methodist camp meetings were held in North Merrick Camp Grounds from 1869 to the early 1920s. A rustic tabernacle in a central circle was soon surrounded by circular lanes, where little cottages and a few larger homes sprang up.

Camp meetings took place during the summer, usually for a 10-day period.  Cottagers, often from the city, enjoyed the summer months in a rural environment, while wagonloads of congregants from nearby Methodist churches came for the day to picnic, hold services and enjoy nature in the Merrick woodlands.

For futher information, call the church office at 378-9222.