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In pandemic, area churches meet people where they are: at home

By Paul Miller
Keene Sentinel

Elm City Church Pastor Albie Powers rehearses his sermon. Michael Moore/Sentinel staff.

Solidarity and spirituality can be found in virtual settings, area church leaders are discovering.

That is not altogether surprising, or a bad thing, Albie Powers, a young local pastor said, even if worship’s history is built on the intimacy of community, parishioners meeting shoulder to shoulder to pray and stand with neighbors.

Now, webcasts and streaming sermons are the order of so many Sundays, with engagement and interest levels in many cases on the rise.

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