The date was Feb 6, 1995 and the occasion was the celebration, at Trinity downtown, of the 150th anniversary of the organizing meeting of the Florida Conference. The conference had actually requested borrowing the pulpit for display/use in Lakeland but conversations with a furniture restorer raised fears that the pulpit may not fare well with the jostling of the move. (It’s interesting to speculate whether the pulpit was borrowed for a similar, Centennial celebration service at Trinity in 1945 and whether that may have influenced the assistance Bethel received with the finishing of its interior in 1945, and the placement of the altar, communion table and pulpit chairs at Bethel by Trinity in 1946.)