It's not the end, but a new beginning for church
Members of All Souls Anglican Church made their exodus to their temporary home Sunday.
By DEIRDRE CONNER, The Times-Union
7/15/2007

Their voices rang out from the pews Sunday morning, the refrains of well-known hymns laden with unfamiliar emotions.

So when the final notes of Lift High the Cross and This is the Day died out, there was both laughter and tears at the All Souls Anglican Church in Mandarin.

After a quarter-century of worshiping at the Old St. Augustine Road sanctuary, All Souls members locked the heavy front door, circled the campus and walked away from a place many called home.

Alluding to the biblical tale of the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, congregants called their 2-mile procession the symbolic closure to a difficult journey that led to their split with the Episcopal Church. the rest