ATLANTA — One of Atlanta’s oldest Methodist churches, Grace on Ponce, is having a huge estate sale to get ready for a major renovation project.
Channel 2’s Craig Lucie went to Grace United Methodist Church in midtown Atlanta where you can find everything from an old organ to Bibles from the 1800s.
The pastor of Grace United Methodist Church, Kate Floyd, showed Lucie around, pointing out everything they are liquidating.
The church was founded in 1871. Just a few years later, someone personally inscribed a Bible with a special handwritten note. The church is selling it for $275.
Grace on Ponce has been at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Charles Allen Drive since 1917.
“We have a lot of things suitable in households like lots of chairs, desks and beautiful cabinets. There are chandeliers from the original sanctuary. They were taken out in the mid 2000s,” said Floyd.
For the congregation, the estate sale began Wednesday afternoon. For the public, it runs from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Sunday and again the following Thursday through Sunday.
They have eight pianos for sale for $450 each and you can buy church pews for $100 a piece.
Global Ministries out of New York recently bought the building and property. The sanctuary will stay the same, but the aging buildings around the church will be renovated so everything must go.
“We are hoping to be surprised by the amount and are glad to use whatever we can use for our ministry, but we don’t have a dollar amount in mind,” said Floyd.
Many of the items are from the homes of people who left their estate to the church. Whatever they don’t sell this week, they will have a blow-out sale next week starting Thursday.
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