Church bells will ring out over Leechburg again this Easter. After more than a year and $30,000 in fundraising, the bells of First Evangelical Lutheran Church are fixed and set to ring again for the first time to welcome worshipers to Easter Sunday services. In addition, the church is planning
A Leechburg pastor is prepping for double ministerial duty at Protestant churches that cross denominational lines. With Sue Washburn preparing to leave her post as interim pastor of Leechburg’s Cross Roads Community Presbyterian Church in mid-February, church leaders on Sunday approved naming the Rev. James Arter as part-time minister of
A defunct church belltower in Leechburg will soon be operational again, thanks to the fundraising work of church volunteers the last five months. “I had a Jesus moment,” said the Rev. James Arter of First Evangelical Lutheran Church of the moment last Tuesday when he opened the church mailbox and