The Bedient Pipe Organ Company of Roca, Nebraska, has relocated the firm’s Opus 8, built in 1976 for Wesley House, a United Methodist ministry for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus (the building was later known as United Ministries in Higher Education, an interdenominational organization). The building became vacant in 2010 and in 2013 served as the temporary home of the Newman Center, St. Thomas Aquinas, a Catholic campus ministry center.
St. Thomas Aquinas Church commissioned the builder to bring the two-manual, mechanical-action organ to its new, permanent home. It was dedicated on April 12 before a capacity congregation.
Bedient has also carried out restorative repairs to the 1910 Geo. Kilgen & Son mechanical-action organ in Immanuel Lutheran Church, Daykin, Nebraska. For information: www.bedientorgan.com.
