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Congregation members join a song leader in a Christmastime hymn at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Alpena on Sunday.
ALPENA — This Christmas season, local churches have had to decide if Christmas Eve will be a silent night.
Throughout 2020, local churches have tried to find the balance between protecting people’s physical safety and filling a spiritual need that, some feel, supersedes even the threat of COVID-19.
As at many other congregations, leaders at Resurrection Lutheran Church in Alpena have wrestled with how best respond to the health concerns and mandates in the state since the coronavirus began sickening Michiganders in February.