Why Is TFC Building a New Chapel
For Pilot/Flying J Travel Center, Frystown, Pennsylvania?
One of the reasons is that the truck stop was recently purchased by Pilot/Flying J, and the main building is being demolished so a new travel plaza can be built.
They are projecting that the travel plaza will be ready for use by the end of May. Cerwin is expecting that the new chapel will also be ready by that time.
Because electric will not be available in the area where the old chapel is parked during the travel plaza construction, Cerwin moved International Chapel #1 into an area of the truck stop that won’t be affected by construction. Also, this chapel can run on generator instead of electricity when necessary.
By the time of this blog entry, it is running on electricity, and will remain here until the new chapel is ready to move into place. Cerwin’s helpers on this day were Glenn, Chaplain Jim (Lead Chaplain at Frystown) and Larry.
It is parked near the shop on the west side of what used to be the main building.
Larry, Glenn, and Cerwin setting up the steps.
The old chapel is beginning to look shabby, so it was decided that a new chapel for this location would better fit in with the refurbished truck plaza. It is one of the oldest in TFC’s fleet and is smaller than most other chapels.
A few days after moving the International Chapel into the truck stop, the old one was removed.
We are grateful to Leroy Keens for doing that job.
Attaching his truck to the chapel.
This chapel was the first one put in place after Cerwin and I came on staff with TFC in 1990.
It was first placed at the TA Truck Stop, Bloomsbury, New Jersey, then when new owners felt that they no longer had space for it on the premises, it was moved to this travel plaza at Frystown.
The tractor is prepared to go to the Keens’ shop between Lititz and Lancaster.
The chapel is heading to the same place.