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Since June has until recent years been the most popular month to marry, plenty of couples celebrate their anniversaries this month. But there are all sorts of anniversaries celebrating longevity — including churches.
Last year, the ELCA affinity group on cooperative ministry went in search of the longest “married” congregations — those that had been together the longest in what is sometimes called “yoked” ministry.
St. Paul Lutheran Church, Nook, Pa. (left), and Port Royal [Pa.] Lutheran Church have been together for 164 years.
Deborah A. Hanson, a member of the affinity group who also serves such a parish, said it falls in the category of “everything old is new again.”
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