Hi My name is Pastor Rod Hembree of Good Friends Fellowship proud owners of the OLD UPTOWN THEATER. Most of the information is correct. Although I do take issue with the status. It is not closed. We do play movies monthly. Good ones too. It’s part of our Church outreach. Also we have finally finished phase 2 of rebuilding the Marquee Sign. It has about 800 lights. The cost was near $50,000 to fix and all of that was donated by Church memebers in Orangeville. We still have phase 3 which will be to re-light the UPTOWN Neon signs and the back-lit panels. We are aiming for summer 2014 to finish the sign. When we bought the building it was a serous mess and a health risk. Mold in the walls (three layers of rotten dry wall) and old hard food and candy everywhere and stuck to everything. This testified to the abuse of that building over the years as a movie theatre. It has all been cleaned out and cleaned up and repaired by the good friends at Good Friends Church in Orangeville. The Church saved the building with over 260,000 volunteer hours of clean up and fix up. Anyone and every one is invited to come and look and take pictures if you wish. We are not a cult. LOL. The building is in use almost ever night of the week. We have 3 services on Sunday 9:00 am, 11:00 am and 6:00 pm. Most of them are filled. Our movie nights are often packed. The cost of seeing a movie is a dollar donation to our LIGHT HOUSE which feeds 10,000 meals a year to needy folks in this good town. All are welcome at Good Friends Fellowship. Even if you are not a CHURCH person come on out and take a look at the old building.
Sr. Pastor Rod Hembree – Good Friends Fellowship at the UPTOWN THEATRE 519-942-0736
Hi My name is Pastor Rod Hembree of Good Friends Fellowship proud owners of the OLD UPTOWN THEATER. Most of the information is correct. Although I do take issue with the status. It is not closed. We do play movies monthly. Good ones too. It’s part of our Church outreach. Also we have finally finished phase 2 of rebuilding the Marquee Sign. It has about 800 lights. The cost was near $50,000 to fix and all of that was donated by Church memebers in Orangeville. We still have phase 3 which will be to re-light the UPTOWN Neon signs and the back-lit panels. We are aiming for summer 2014 to finish the sign. When we bought the building it was a serous mess and a health risk. Mold in the walls (three layers of rotten dry wall) and old hard food and candy everywhere and stuck to everything. This testified to the abuse of that building over the years as a movie theatre. It has all been cleaned out and cleaned up and repaired by the good friends at Good Friends Church in Orangeville. The Church saved the building with over 260,000 volunteer hours of clean up and fix up. Anyone and every one is invited to come and look and take pictures if you wish. We are not a cult. LOL. The building is in use almost ever night of the week. We have 3 services on Sunday 9:00 am, 11:00 am and 6:00 pm. Most of them are filled. Our movie nights are often packed. The cost of seeing a movie is a dollar donation to our LIGHT HOUSE which feeds 10,000 meals a year to needy folks in this good town. All are welcome at Good Friends Fellowship. Even if you are not a CHURCH person come on out and take a look at the old building. Sr. Pastor Rod Hembree – Good Friends Fellowship at the UPTOWN THEATRE 519-942-0736