Another relic of 9/11 has found a new and spiritually fitting home: The historic organ of Trinity Church, silent for 15 years, is again sounding loud and clear in Johns Creek United Methodist Church in Atlanta.
Buried in dust and debris from the fallen Twin Towers, the organ that had served the church for 80 years was thought ruined. Trinity Church moved on, with a new instrument.
But now, after sitting in storage for years, the old organ has been restored.
It took in “excess of $1 million,” according to the Atlanta church’s Web site, but the Johns Creek congregation gladly seized the “opportunity to salvage a victim of the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and use it in praise to God.”
The service to rededicate the organ was packed, according to NPR. The network’s Bradley George reported: “Altogether, it looks beautiful. The steel pipes soar above the sanctuary, a large cross suspended in front of them”
The Atlanta church considers the Trinity organ — gifted from the New York church — an instrument of peace. Let it be so.