He would then travel back up the hill to hold services at the Homer Heights Church, followed by another trip down the hill for an evening service in town. On Sunday morning, Carl would speak in Homer at the Women’s Club, which was located in Old Town. The Taylors lived in a rented log cabin on the hill and would walk or snowshoe between houses. … Happily married we made our way across the Kachemak Bay to beautiful Homer were we made our first home.” Six months later I reached Alaska and we were married that unforgettable Christmas in Seldovia. “It was July 1940, we embraced and then the train took my fiancé off to the Pacific coast where he caught a ship to Homer, Alaska. The following excerpts and dates are from that book of history.Ĭora Taylor, wife of Carl Taylor, first pastor in Homer writes: Now, 74 years after it began, Christian Community Church is still present. Homer’s first church from inception in 1940 through present time.” “This being 1967, Alaska’s Centennial Year, this album is being compiled as the Christian Community Church Centennial Project. The introduction to the album states the following: The others met in a log schoolhouse until they built the “Homer Heights Church,” near what is now East Hill.Ī blue, three-ring binder with old photographs and typewritten pages tells a piece of the church’s story.
Instead, it started with just a few homesteaders gathering together for Sunday services.īecause travel was harder - there weren’t as many roads in the late 1930s - some would meet in downtown Homer on the beach, and later at the Women’s Club. Homer’s oldest church didn’t start out with large numbers, a good band, or even its own building.
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