Ohio County, W.V. \u2014 Bethlehem Temple Church in Wheeling marked nearly a century of ministry Sunday morning, celebrating its 94th anniversary and reflecting on its past while looking toward the future.<\/p>\n
Church leaders highlighted the congregation\u2019s commitment to maintaining traditions established by its founding fathers. They also acknowledged the challenges of sustaining and growing the church, saying the anniversary was a reminder of both what has been accomplished and how much work remains to expand its audience and impact.<\/p>\n
Bishop Darrell Cummings, who has served as pastor for 36 years, said the church is focused on continuing its community outreach and spiritual mission.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not as large as we used to be, but we\u2019re not as big as we\u2019re going to be,\u201d Cummings said. \u201cAnd so we\u2019re excited about our future, we\u2019re exciting about hopefully the positive impact that we\u2019ve had on our community, the different things that we\u2019re done with our food giveaways, sheltering the hungry, and most important in helping to bring people closer to God.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ohio County, W.V. \u2014 Bethlehem Temple Church in Wheeling marked nearly a century of ministry Sunday morning, celebrating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-290523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}