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The Rev. Jeffrey A. Packard at his church, St. Andrewâs Episcopal Church, in State College on Tuesday, Nov. 24. Packard grew up in State College and attended St. Andrewâs where he now serves as rector.
Dwindling daylight shimmers through the stained glass and onto the pews of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in State College on a Sunday in late autumn as the sun sets on its 5 p.m. service
Congregants shuffle in and take their seats quietly under the towering ceiling. The 112-year-old church can hold several hundred people, but it won’t today.