Organ travels 1,000 miles to St. Mark's Episcopal Church

By Heidi Glaus

KSDK -- There's no question certain things exist only through blood, sweat and tears. And, an organ at a church might just be one of those things. 

It's a heavenly piece of art really that started seven months ago, more than 1000 miles away.

"We are from Montreal, in Quebec, Canada," explains Denis Juget.

That means the beautiful, handmade organ had to be built, torn down, packed up and carefully unloaded one piece after another.  Pipe by pipe, all 1210 of them.

"Two and a-half-years we were searching around the country, and we found these builders, and we were totally impressed with their work, it's beautiful," adds St. Mark's organist, Robert Mullgardt.

However, considering St. Mark's Episcopal Church has been recognized by the American Institute of Architects as a significant building, it had to not only sound right, it had to fit just right.

All of the hard work has finally come together wrapped up in nice little bow, but it wouldn't have happened without the generosity of a woman by the name of Ruth Proehl.

"Who was an unpretentious, quiet, little old lady.  She gave us the money with no strings attached," explains Rev. Dr. Lydia Agnew Speller.

Now there are several strings attached and each one of them will come together kind of like the team at Juget-Sinclair, who built this organ, and once again there will be beautiful music played in this little church known as the God box.