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This first picture depicts a gathering of the Downers Grove Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Adventist Junior Youth Club.  AJY clubs would later become known as Pathfinder Clubs. The remaining pictures below are of various Sabbath School classes meeting in and around the church.

First Sabbath in the New Church: I had originally thought this picture was taken on the Sabbath in 1971 when the church building was dedicated debt free.  However, after closer examination, I know believe that this picture was taken when 325 people attended the first Sabbath in the new church building on February 10, 1968. [...]

This picture was taken in the gymnasium of the Lester School in Downers Grove.  The church rented this facility after they outgrew their original meeting place.  From the Lake Union Herald, December 14, 1965, Vol. LVII, No. 49, page 13: “Emil Donda has been sparking the Building Fund by circulating a large five gallon bottle [...]

Fellowship Dinner Hostesses Today: Vicki Wegrzyn, Cindy Sokolies, Pam Bonnier & Elsie May. Next Fellowship Dinner: November 1

Fellowship Dinner Hostesses Today: Tina Leonor, Pam Dye, Vera Conolly & Zita Kirsnauskaite. Next Fellowship Dinner: October 18. More Pathfinders Pictures >>