WYOMISSING, Pa. –\u00a0Wyomissing United Church of Christ is marking a major milestone, celebrating 175 years as a congregation and 140 years in its historic church building.<\/p>\n
The church hosted an anniversary worship service this morning led by Reverend William Worley of the Pennsylvania Southeast Conference.<\/p>\n
We spoke with members as they reflected on the past and looked ahead to the future.<\/p>\n
“Where do we see ourselves in a hundred years, what would people be thinking when it’s that anniversary. The times are changing a lot, so, we are hoping to adapt to the people and the needs,” says Dennis Swartz, the consistory President.<\/p>\n
Visitors explored church memorabilia and enjoyed light refreshments following the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WYOMISSING, Pa. –\u00a0Wyomissing United Church of Christ is marking a major milestone, celebrating 175 years as a congregation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-29585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29585","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=29585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}